Isabella Bird: Difference between revisions

'''Isabella Lucy Bird''', married name '''Bishop''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRGS}} (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer,<ref name="ODNB">{{cite journal|author=Middleton, Dorothy |title=Bishop [Bird], Isabella Lucy (1831–1904) |journal=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31904}}</ref> photographer,<ref name="NLS">{{cite web|title=Isabella Bird (1831–1904) |url=http://digital.nls.uk/jma/who/bird/ |work=The John Murray Archive |publisher=National Library of Scotland |accessdate=16 March 2014 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317122419/http://digital.nls.uk/jma/who/bird/ |archivedate=17 March 2014 }}</ref> and naturalist.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Marilyn Bailey|title=Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography|year=1986|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=9780262650380|pages=38|edition=Reprint.}}</ref> With [[Fanny Jane Butler]] she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Health Care Institutes - John Bishop Memorial Mission Hospital, Kashmir |work=Diocese of Amritsar |accessdate=2015-04-21 |url=http://www.amritsardiocesecni.org/john-bishop-hospital.html |deadurl=noyes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226192346/http://www.amritsardiocesecni.org/john-bishop-hospital.html |archivedate=26 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]].<ref name="Times Obit">{{cite journal|title=Mrs Bishop|journal=The Times|date=10 October 1904|series=Obituaries|issue=37521|pages=4|location=London, England}}</ref>

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725130455/http://californialegacy.org/radio_anthology/bird.html Short '''radio script''', ''Bear Encounter''] at [[California Legacy Project]]