Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
published a number of introductions or contributions to the works of others: about ski-ing, sailing, travel, and her philosophy of travel. |
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... |
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, pp. 63-92. 73-4 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, pp. 34-56. 35 |
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 |
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... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | The Royal Geographical Society
of Britain awarded MS
its Victoria Gold Medal. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 212 |
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. 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 |
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... |
Travel | Freya Stark | Stark received the Royal Geographical Society
's Founder's Gold Medal for her efforts, though the trip was marred from an early stage by the travellers' physical illnesses and personal conflicts. However, Stark left having pinpointed... |
Reception | Freya Stark | Recommended by the Book Society
and the Book Guild
, The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS
, rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen |
Textual Features | Freya Stark | This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS
established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society
and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Wood |
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