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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. 181 |
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. 203-4 |
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. |
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. 208 |
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. |
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