Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, 2008, pp. 63-92.
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death | Kate Marsden | She was buried in an unmarked grave at Hillingdon Cemetery. Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, 2008, pp. 63-92. 73-4 qtd. in Baigent, Elizabeth. “Travelling bodies, texts and reputations: the gendered life and afterlife of Kate Marsden and her mission to Siberian lepers in the 1890s”. Studies in Travel Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 1, Mar. 2014, pp. 34-56. 35 |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Wood | |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | Through Venetia Buddicom
, she met Sir Henry Lawrence
, former acting governor of Bombay, who in turn introduced her to Lionel Smith
and Arthur Hinks
, the latter of whom was Secretary to the... |
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. |
Leisure and Society | Dervla Murphy | DM
is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
, and also belongs to the Royal Asiatic Society
and the Tibet Society
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 204 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Occupation | Kate Marsden | Shortly after her expedition to Siberia, KM
was one of the first cohort of women elected to fellowships of the Royal Geographical Society
, at a time when she was putting substantial effort into... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
was awarded the Royal Geographical Society
's Back Memorial Grant for her work in Persia. She was the third woman to receive this award. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999. 142, 147-8 |
Occupation | Freya Stark | Since FS
properly identified several mountains and villages for the first time, this journey marked the beginning of her reputation as a traveller and cartographer. She later wrote up her expedition for the Royal Geographical Society |
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, 1986. 208 |
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