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Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 – 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. ==Early life== Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were the Reverend Edward Bird and his second wife Dora Lawson.〔 Isabella moved several times during her childhood. Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead where Isabella's brother, Edward was born and died in his first year. As a result of her father's ill health the family moved again in 1834 to Tattenhall in Cheshire, - a living presented to him by his cousin Dr John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester where in the same year Isabella's sister, Henrietta, was born. Isabella was outspoken from an early age. When six years old, she asked the local MP for South Cheshire: "Sir Malpas de Grey Tatton Egerton, did you tell my father was so pretty because you wanted his vote?"〔 Edward Bird's controversial views against Sunday labour caused his congregation to dwindle and in 1842 he requested a transfer to St. Thomas's in Birmingham. Here again objections were raised which culminated in the minister being pelted "with stones, mud, and insults." In 1848, the family moved again and after spending some time in Eastbourne took up residence in Wyton in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire.)〔Stoddart, Anna M, (1906) ''The Life of Isabella Bird, Mrs Bishop'' : London, J. Murray OCLC 4138739〕 From early childhood Isabella was frail, suffering from a spinal complaint, nervous headaches and insomnia. The doctor recommended an open-air life 〔 and as a result she learned to ride in infancy, and later to row. Her only education came from her parents: her father was a keen botanist and Isabella studied flora with him and her mother taught her daughters an eclectic mix of subjects. Isabella became an avid reader.〔 However, her " bright intelligence, () an extreme curiosity as to the world outside, made it impossible for her brain and her nature generally to be narrowed and stiffened by the strictly evangelical atmosphere of her childhood." Isabella's first publication was at the age of sixteen: a pamphlet addressing Free Trade v Protectionism after which she continued writing articles for various periodicals.〔 In 1850 a "fibrous tumour was removed from the neighbourhood of the spine". She continued to be unwell, suffering from unspecified ailments resulting in lassitude and insomnia. The family spent six summers in Scotland in an effort to improve her health. Doctors urged a sea voyage, and in 1854 her life of travelling began when the opportunity arose for Isabella to sail to the United States accompanying her second cousins to their family home. Her father "gave her ()100 and leave to stay away as long as it lasted.".〔 Her "bright descriptive letters" 〔 written home to her relations formed the basis for her first book "An Englishwoman in America" published by Murray in 1856. John Murray, "as well as being Isabella's lifelong publisher, ... () one of her closest friends. " 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isabella Bird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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