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Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-12-29
主題	Fiction / Action & Adventure
ISBN	15406519409781540651945
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dKVTMQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Princess Helena Koltzoff-Massalsky, better known by her pseudonym of Dora d'Istria, came of the family of the Ghikas, formerly princes of Wallachia, and was born at Bucharest, on the 22nd of January, 1829. Through the care and conscientiousness of her instructor, Mons. Papadopoulos, and her own remarkable capacity, she acquired a very complete and comprehensive education. When but eleven years old, she composed a charming little story, and before she had reached womanhood, undertook a translation of the Iliad. She showed no inclination for the frivolous amusements of a frivolous society. Her view of life and its responsibilities was a serious one, and she addressed all her energies to the work of self-improvement and self-culture. She read and re-read the literary masterpieces of England, France and Germany. As a linguist she earned special distinction.CONTENTS.PAGECOUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA 17THE PRINCESS OF BELGIOJOSO 48MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL 66MADAME LÉONIE D'AUNET 126MISS FREDERIKA BREMER 134MADEMOISELLE ALEXINA TINNÉ 184MADAME IDA PFEIFFER 215MADAME DE BOURBOULON 270LADY HESTER STANHOPE 302LADY BRASSEY 340LADY MORGAN 379MRS. TROLLOPE 385MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU 404MISS ISABELLA BIRD 418LADY FLORENCE DIXIE 437MISS GORDON CUMMING 443FLORENCE AND ROSAMOND HILL 452LADY BARKER 456"MAGYARLAND" 458