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Letters to Henrietta Isabella L. Bird

Letters to Henrietta von Isabella L. Bird

Letters to Henrietta Isabella L. Bird


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Zusammenfassung

This selection of letters written by Isabella Bird - the intrepid middle-aged spinster who travelled the world and visited exotic and remote places - reveals not the Isabella Bird we thought we knew, but instead a tempestuous, self-obsessed woman, occasionally at odds with the idea of Empire.

Letters to Henrietta Zusammenfassung

Letters to Henrietta: Isabella Bird Isabella L. Bird

Before her first journey, no one would have guessed that Isabella Bird would become the heroine of Victorian travel. A middle-aged spinster on the Isle of Mull, she suffered from all kinds of strange diseases and was too frail to hold up her head without a steel support. Nonplussed, her doctors packed her off to the Pacific, the antipodean version of the spas of Switzerland, hoping for a cure.;Once there, her transformation was dramatic. Suddenly in Hawaii, she could climb the world's highest volcano - and was the first woman to do so; she rode an elephant through the untravelled jungles of Perak, she arrived in Hong Kong just in time to see it burn, and in Colorado she fell in love with a one-eyed desperado called Rocky Mountain Jim. But whenever she came home, her illness returned, making another trip essential.;Ultimately, she became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (another female first), adviser to Gladstone and friend of Queen Victoria. She also became the mistress of her own mythology; insisting that her books reproduced the fresh impressions recorded in her letters.This selection reveals not the Isabella Bird we thought we knew, but instead a tempestuous, self-obsessed woman, occasionally at odds with the idea of Empire, deflecting proposals right and left. The letters also throw light on a fascinating relationship with Hennie, an equally clever and curious sister who had to stay behind.

Über Isabella L. Bird

Kay Chubbuck, now assistant professor at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and a visiting lecturer at Princeton, studied at Columbia, Princeton and Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She has been researching Victorian travel literature, especially Isabella Bird, for years.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I The first world tour, 1872-3: the sea; Australia; Hawaii; Colorado. Part II The second world tour, 1878-9: Japan and the way thither; China; The Malay Peninsula.

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Letters to Henrietta: Isabella Bird Isabella L. Bird
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