About a year after her husband
's death, IB
enrolled in a three-month nursing course at St Mary's Hospital
in Paddington, London.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
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Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Isabella Bird
IB
, aged nearly fifty and the last of her immediate family left alive, married Dr John Bishop
at St Lawrence's Church, Barton on the Moor, Warwickshire.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
128
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.
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Residence
Isabella Bird
IB
(now Isabella Bishop) and her husband
settled into their new home at 12 Walker Street in Edinburgh.
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.