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
Siblings: Henrietta Amelia Bird
Spouse: John Bishop (m. 1881–1886)
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Over the years Isabella Bird forged a new identity for herself; as her health improved and her confidence grew her clothing became more masculine, more multi- ...
Sep 13, 2023 · The intrepid Victorian-era author proved that a lady's life could be in the mountains, and I am forever grateful for that.
Nov 19, 2021 · Historian Jo Woolf tells story of Isabella Bird, a female explorer who broke the conventions of her time living as a rancher in the Rocky ...
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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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan · 523 downloads ; Korea and her neighbors · 443 downloads ; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains · 426 downloads ; Journeys in Persia and ...