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The Englishwoman in America (1856) by Isabella Bird (Original Classics)
Isabella Bird
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-01-13
主題Fiction / General
ISBN15233880219781523388028
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r7RhjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were the Reverend Edward Bird and his second wife Dora Lawson.[1] Isabella moved several times during her childhood. Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora.