Royal Geographical Society

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Literary responses Jane Austen
Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul , in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from...
Reception Isabella Bird
IB , already a member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , became the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
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Reception Isabella Bird
IB became the first woman to address the Royal Geographical Society ; she spoke to the society about her five-month-long journey in northwest China.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
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Occupation Isabella Bird
IB journeyed around Korea and China, occasionally returning to Japan to rest. During a time of political unrest in Korea, she worked as war correspondent and political interpreter, consulted with the Korean royal family...
Reception Isabella Bird
The Royal Geographical Society in London invited IB to speak to them in 1891 after her travels through India and Persia; she was the first woman they had ever asked. She declined because the Society...
Reception Isabella Bird
When the Scottish Society was incorporated by the Royal Geographical Society in London, she was named a fellow by the English as well as the Scottish society, the first woman to be so honoured...
Textual Production Isabella Bird
Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...
Travel Richard Francis Burton
With John Speke and sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society , RFB sought in Africa for the source of the Nile, covering what is now Sudan and Uganda.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's father, Sir Richard Strachey , was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely...
politics May Crommelin
MC 's Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society is mentioned without comment by various sources,
“May Crommelin (Maria Henriette de la Cherois-Crommelin) (1849 - 1930)”. Crommelin Family, The Netherlands.
but it was in fact highly controversial. The Society had included a handful of female Fellows since 1884, but purely...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosita Forbes
She encountered McGrath, and thought him the most attractive man she had ever met, during the high tide of success of her Kufara book; she got him admitted to her second Royal Geographical Society lecture...
Reception Rosita Forbes
RF was internationally recognised as a traveller by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society , as well of several parallel institutions in other countries.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(4 July 1967): 12
Material Conditions of Writing Elspeth Huxley
Encouraged by her friendship with Peter Scott , the explorer's son, EH spent a whole month, plus additional shorter periods, in research at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge, and also visited the...
politics Mary Kingsley
What was worse, in Kingsley's opinion, was that she was sensationalized as a New Woman.
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin.
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She was also frequently faced with offers to join academic societies, such as the Royal Geographical Society ...
Leisure and Society Ella K. Maillart
EKM belonged to the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London, and to the Club des Explorateurs in Paris.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Timeline

1830: The Geographical Society was founded, with...

Building item

1830

The Geographical Society was founded, with the help of prominent Astronomical Society members.

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