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Title: Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Author: W. H. Davenport Adams

Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31479]

Language: English

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CELEBRATED WOMEN TRAVELLERS.

[Illustration: YOKOHAMA.]

Celebrated Women Travellers

OF THE

_NINETEENTH CENTURY_

BY

W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1903

CONTENTS.

PAGE

COUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA 17

THE PRINCESS OF BELGIOJOSO 48

MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL 66

MADAME LEONIE D'AUNET 126

MISS FREDERIKA BREMER 134

MADEMOISELLE ALEXINA TINNE 184

MADAME IDA PFEIFFER 215

MADAME DE BOURBOULON 270

LADY HESTER STANHOPE 302

LADY BRASSEY 340

LADY MORGAN 379

MRS. TROLLOPE 385

MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU 404

MISS ISABELLA BIRD 418

LADY FLORENCE DIXIE 437

MISS GORDON CUMMING 443

FLORENCE AND ROSAMOND HILL 452

LADY BARKER 456

"MAGYARLAND" 458

WOMAN AS A TRAVELLER

COUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA.

The Princess Helena Koltzoff-Massalsky, better known by her pseudonym of
Dora d'Istria,[1] came of the family of the Ghikas, formerly princes of
Wallachia, and was born at Bucharest, on the 22nd of January, 1829.
Through the care and conscientiousness of her instructor, Mons.
Papadopoulos, and her own remarkable capacity, she acquired a very
complete and comprehensive education. When but eleven years old, she
composed a charming little story, and before she had reach