Isabella Bird
British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1831
- Died
- 1904
- Works
- 212
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- Unbeaten tracks in Japan
- Primary Sources, Historical Collections
- Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
- Englishwoman in America
- Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
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Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS (née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) 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 to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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1831 births1904 deaths19th-century English explorers19th-century English women writersBritish women explorersCommons link from WikidataEnglish expatriates in ChinaEnglish travel writersEnglish women travel writersFellows of the Royal Geographical SocietyPeople from BoroughbridgeWomen of the Victorian era