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ISABELLA BISHOP (1832-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISABELLA See also:BISHOP (1832-1904)  , See also:English traveller and author, daughter of the Rev . See also:Edward See also:Bird, See also:rector of Tattenhall, See also:Cheshire, was See also:born in See also:Yorkshire on the 15th of See also:October 1832 . See also:Isabella Bird began to travel when she was twenty-two . 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 . She visited the Rocky Mountains, the See also:South Pacific, See also:Australia and . New See also:Zealand, producing some brightly written books of travel . 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), See also:Korea and her Neighbours (2 vols., 1898), The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899), See also:Chinese Pictures (19oo) . 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 . In 1892 she became the first See also: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 . She died in Edinburgh on the 7th of October 1904 . See See also:Anna M . Stoddart, The See also:Life of Isabella Bird (1906) .

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