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ISABELLA See also: English traveller and author, daughter of the Rev
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See also: Edward See also: Bird, rector of Tattenhall, See also: Cheshire, was See also: born in See also: Yorkshire on the 15th of See also: October 1832
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Isabella Bird began to travel when she was twenty-two
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Her first See also: book, The Englishwoman in See also: America (1856), consisted of her See also: correspondence during a visit to See also: Canada undertaken for her See also: health
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She visited the Rocky Mountains, the See also: South Pacific, See also: Australia and
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New Zealand, producing some brightly written books of travel
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But her reputation was made by the records of her extensive travels in See also: Asia: Unbeaten Tracks in See also: Japan (2 vols., r88o), Journeys in See also: Persia and See also: Kurdistan (2 vols., 1891), Among the Tibetans (1894), Korea and her Neighbours (2 vols., 1898), The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899), See also: Chinese Pictures (19oo)
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She married in 1881 Dr See also: John
See also: Bishop, an See also: Edinburgh physician, and was See also: left a widow in 1886
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In 1892 she became the first lady See also: fellow of the Royal See also: Geographical Society, and in 1901 she rode a thousand See also: miles in See also: Morocco and the See also: Atlas Mountains
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She died in Edinburgh on the 7th of October 1904
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See Anna M
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Stoddart, The See also: Life of Isabella Bird (1906)
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