Isabella Bird

] Isabella Lucy Bird (October 15th 1831 - October 7th 1904) was exploring and a écrivaine 19th century.

Preambles

It was born with Boroughbridge in the Yorkshire. His/her father, Edward Bird, were Pasteur of the Church Anglican, which led them to move several times through Great Britain when Edouard received various stations of parish. Particularly in 1848 when it was replaced as cleaned St Thomas because its parishioners opposed his model of ministry.

Isabella was a morbid child and it passed its whole life to fight against various evils. This morbid character probably had a psychological origin because when Isabella did what she wanted she was not almost sicker and only she particularly liked to do was to travel. In 1854, his/her father gives him £100 and it returns visit to parents to America. It accepted the permission to remain there until its money is exhausted. The result of its voyage was a first book which she anonymously wrote under the title The Englishwoman in America , published in 1856. The following year, it went to the Canada and in Scotland, but each stay in the United Kingdom always seemed to make it sick. After the death of his/her mother in 1868, it embarks in a series of excursions in order to avoid being installed permanently in his/her sister Henrietta (Henny) on the island of Mull. Henny was of the casanier type, in an intolerable way for Isabella which financed its voyages while writing. A great part of its work is compiled in the form of letters which she wrote with her sister in Scotland.

Voyages

Isabella finally left abroad in 1872 on the basis of access in Australia, which she hated, then with Hawaii (then Iles Sandwich), with which she fell in love and on which she wrote its second book (published in 1875). It leaves then for the Colorado, then the youngest state of the the United States, where it intended to say that the air was excellent for the disabled person. Equipped in a practical way and not riding a horse to the Amazon but like a man, it covers more than 800 miles in the Rocheuses in 1873 and its letters for Henny form its third - and perhaps most known - delivers has Lady' S Life in the Rocky Mountains .

The time of Isabella in the Rock ones was animated by its meeting with Jim Nugent, one out the one-eyed law, at the same time amateur of poetry and follower of violence. " A man whom any woman could love, but with the which any reasonable woman marierait" , Isabella declared, in a section removed of its letters before their publication. Jim seemed also captivated by the spirit independent of Isabella but finally it left the Rock ones and its " expensive desperado". Jim died cut down less than one year later.

Of return to the house, it was found courted again, this time by John Bishop a doctor of Edinburgh of about thirty years. Again sick, it sets out again on a journey, this time in Asia: Japan, China, Vietnam and Singapore. During this time Henny fell sick and died of the Typhoïde in 1880. Isabella had the broken heart and finally it accepted the proposal for a marriage of Bishop. Its health had a serious reverse but when Bishop died itself 1886, Isabella recovered. Feeling that its preceding voyages were somewhat dilettantes, it started to study medicine and was solved to travel as missionary. In spite of its almost sixty years it set out again for the India.

Last years

Arriving on the sub-continent in February 1889, Isabella visits several missions in India, crosses Tibet and travels in Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan. The following year, it joined a group of British soldiers which travels between Baghdad and Teheran. It remains with the commander of the unit for one period, then is seen in the area armed with its revolver and a provided trunk of medicine (an early example of sponsoring?) by the Henry Wellcome 'S company of London.

Published in the newspapers and the magazines during decades, Isabella Bird was a recognized name and follow-up. In 1892, it became the first woman to enter the Royal Geographical Society. Its large last travels took place in 1897 where she travelled to the top of the rivers Yang Tsé Kiang and Han in China and in Korea. Later she undertakes a stay with the Morocco, where she travels among the Berbère S. She uses a scale to ride a horse. She dies in Edinburgh a few months after her return, little before her seventy-third birthday. She planned already another voyage in China.

“There never was anybody”, wrote Spectator, “who had adventures ace well ace Bird." Miss; ” In 1982, Caryl Churchill uses it like character in his part Top Girls . Most of the dialog written by Churchill comes from the proper writings of Bird.

Publications

The Englishwoman in America (1856)
The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
has Lady' S Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
The Golden Chersonese and the way Thither (1883)
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891)
Among the Tibetans (1894)
Korea and her Neighbors (1898)
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
Chinese Pictures (1900)
Notes one Morocco (published in the monthly Review) (1901)

external bonds

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