Isabella Bird
Explorer and writer
Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was also the first woman... Wikipedia
Born: October 15, 1831, Boroughbridge, United Kingdom
Died: October 7, 1904 (age 72 years), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Spouse: John Bishop (m. 1881–1886)
Siblings: Henrietta Amelia Bird
Parents: Dora Lawson and Edward Bird
Place of burial: Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS (née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.
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Isabella Bird spent much of her life as a world traveler. Her first published books, “The Englishwoman in America” (1856) and “Aspects of Religion in the ...
Isabella Bird (married name Bishop) was an English explorer, writer and photographer. She was the first women to be made a Fellow at the Royal Geographical ...
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Award-winning biography of 19th adventure Isabella Bird who visited Colorado, Hawaii and Australia, and gallivanted around Japan, China, Korea, ...
In portraits of Isabella Bird she is usually depicted in traditional Victorian clothing, choosing, like many other travellers, to adopt British fashions whilst ...
Nov 23, 2022 · The 4ft 11in Victorian adventurer who rode 800 miles across Colorado solo on a horse. The tragedy is that this pioneering explorer has largely been forgotten ...
Isabella Bird was a plucky English woman who rode 800 miles solo through the Front Range of Colorado in 1873. Horseback riding through the rugged outback ...
Aug 12, 2024 · Bird Bishop had a long-standing spinal condition. At the age of 18, she had a tumour removed, but still suffered with pain in this area all her life.
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Books by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) (sorted by popularity) ; Unbeaten Tracks in Japan · 612 downloads ; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains · 296 downloads ...
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