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Bishop (ISABELLA BIRD an English)

ISABELLA BIRD, an English author and traveler, born in Yorkshire about 1832; made her first trip abroad 1855, when she visited Prince Ed ward's Island and United States, and has since circumnavigated the globe three times. She spent much time in Japan, and in 1894-1895 made her third trip to Korea. She was in Seoul when the war broke out, 1894, and was the first person whose war correspondence reached London. Her publications include "Six Months in the Sandwich Islands" (1873); "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" (1874); "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" (1880); "Journeys in Persia and Kurdestan" (1892); 2); "Among the Tibetans" (1894); "Korea and Her Neighbors" (1898); "The Yangtze Valley" (1899); etc. She died in 1904.