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Isobel Wylie Hutchison (30 May 1889–20 February 1982) was a Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist. She also wrote poetry, books on her travels and articles in various geographic magazines. She painted many scenes from her adventures. ==Early life== Hutchison was born at Carlowrie Castle in West Lothian, the third of five children of Thomas Hutchison (1841-1900) and Jeannie Wylie (1847-1931). Her father was well established in the wine wholesaling trade, and his father-in-law had been a successful farmer; his wealth enabled him to spend a great deal of time with Isobel, teaching her about botany and gardening. She also received a private education from a governess, and was very active physically at croquet, tennis, archery, skating, hiking, cycling, Scottish country dancing and walking. From 1900, she attended school in Edinburgh, where she studied a curriculum suited for a Victorian gentlewoman. After her sister married a naval officer and saw very little of him for long periods, Isobel decided that marriage would restrict her life. Her father died when she was ten years old, but he left equal provision for all of the children with trusts, and so she was independent for the whole of her life. Hutchison confessed to wanting to be a poet and started writing while young. She kept diaries assiduously from 1903, and edited "The Scribbler", a magazine created by the family, which she continued to write even into her twenties. A polyglot, by the time she was an adult she could speak Italian, Gaelic, Greek, Hebrew, Danish, Icelandic, Greenlandic and some Inuit words. From her early years she had gone for long walks, and would often walk the eight miles from Carlowrie to Edinburgh, spurning the family motorcar. These walks reached 100 miles when she was twenty, e.g. Blairgowrie to Fort Augustus (100 miles), and Doune to Oban (70 miles). Later on she went for long "strolls" and wrote articles for the National Geographic Magazine afterwards. Hutchison's youngest brother, Frank, died in 1912 at the age of 16 in a climbing accident in the Cairngorms. This had a profound effect on her, and she stopped writing in her diary for a time. Another brother, Walter, was killed in the First World War. From 1917 to 1918, Hutchison studied business training and marketing, as well as religion and language, at Studley College in Warwickshire, which had been set up for the education of young women in agriculture. During 1918, things were very bad, with little food for the animals and all the men gone to the war. Influenza swept through the college and some students died. She went through emotional problems while she was there. 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「Isobel Wylie Hutchison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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