Bishop, Isabella Bird
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aa01Korea and her neighbors
Korea and her neighborsBook 1898
- Summary
- Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1831 [2]
- 1831-10-15 [5]
- Birth Place
- Boroughbridge [5]
- Died
- 1904 [2]
- 1904-10-08 [5]
- Death Place
- Edinburgh [5]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- explorer [5]
- writer [5]
- naturalist [5]
- geographer [5]
- photographer [5]
- traveler [5]
- botanical collector [5]
- missionary [5]
- Profession
- Schriftstellerin [2]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [5]
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
- Profile (requires subscription) [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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