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Ethel Brilliana Tweedie F.R.G.S. (1862–1940) was a prolific English author, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor, journalist, photographer and illustrator. She wrote as Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Alec-Tweedie and as Ethel B. Harley.〔 ==Early life== Ethel Tweedie was born 1 January 1862 in London, the daughter of George Harley F.R.S. and Emma Jessier (Musprat) Harley, into an early life of wealth and privilege. Her siblings included a sister (Olga) and three brothers (Vaughan B., Vernon De V. and Harold S.), She was named by her father for a famous relative, Lady Brilliana Harley (wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan). She was educated at Queen's College, London, and abroad in Germany. In 1886 she visited Iceland on holiday with her brother Dr. Vaughan B. Harley, M.D., her future husband Alexander (Alec) Tweedie, a woman friend, and two other men. At the suggestion of her father, she kept a journal of her travels and published it afterwards as her first book, ''A Girl's Ride in Iceland in 1895.〔 Following a telegram warning of the sudden serious illness of her brother in Christiania, Norway in 1893, she and her sister travelled to see him. She returned to Norway again within two years, then later published her second book ''A Winter Jaunt to Norway: with Accounts of Nansen, Ibsen, Bjornson, Brandes, and Many Others'' outlining her travel experiences and meetings with a number of famous people while abroad.
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