Henrietta Bird

Standard Name: Bird, Henrietta

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Bird
IB had a younger sister, Henrietta Bird , to whom she was close. After the deaths of their parents, they lived together between Isabella's travels.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
35-6
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press.
3
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Bird
Following their mother's death, her sister Henrietta horrified her by deciding to settle on the Isle of Mull.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
ST 's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
261-344
She became an especially good friend of Dinah Mulock Craik
Publishing 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...
Residence Isabella Bird
Following her father 's death, IB moved to 3 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, with her mother and sister .
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
31
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray.
49
Textual Production Isabella Bird
IB dated the first of the letters to her sister Henrietta that later formed the basis for her best-known work, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, 1879.
Bird, Isabella. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. J. Murray.
1
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
2722 (1879): 845-7
Textual Production Isabella Bird
Published the following year under her own name, this was the first of her travel books to be based on letters home to her sister Henrietta .
Wealth and Poverty Isabella Bird
IB 's mother died, leaving Isabella and her sister with a modest inheritance that would enable both to live independently.
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press.
29
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray.
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