Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE
- CHAP. II FIRST TRAVELS AND PUBLICATIONS
- CHAP. III EDINBURGH AND WORK
- CHAP. IV IN JOURNEYINGS OFT
- CHAP. V THE WIDE EAST
- CHAP. VI “AN TAON BHEANNICHT” (“THE BLESSED ONE”)
- CHAP. VII MARRIAGE
- CHAP. VIII LOSS
- CHAP. IX “THROUGH MANY LANDS”
- CHAP. X NATIONS THAT SIT IN DARKNESS
- CHAP. XI PUBLIC WORK
- CHAP. XII THE FAR EAST
- CHAP. XIII THE CHANGING EAST
- CHAP. XIV LAST JOURNEYS
- CHAP. XV “I AM GOING HOME”
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- PART OF NORTH AMERICA
- Plate section
CHAP. IV - IN JOURNEYINGS OFT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE
- CHAP. II FIRST TRAVELS AND PUBLICATIONS
- CHAP. III EDINBURGH AND WORK
- CHAP. IV IN JOURNEYINGS OFT
- CHAP. V THE WIDE EAST
- CHAP. VI “AN TAON BHEANNICHT” (“THE BLESSED ONE”)
- CHAP. VII MARRIAGE
- CHAP. VIII LOSS
- CHAP. IX “THROUGH MANY LANDS”
- CHAP. X NATIONS THAT SIT IN DARKNESS
- CHAP. XI PUBLIC WORK
- CHAP. XII THE FAR EAST
- CHAP. XIII THE CHANGING EAST
- CHAP. XIV LAST JOURNEYS
- CHAP. XV “I AM GOING HOME”
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- PART OF NORTH AMERICA
- Plate section
Summary
Of the early summer of 1870 we have but scanty record. Henrietta Bird spent July in lodgings at Tobermory, but in that month Isabella was at home, frail and in pain. Dr. Moir suggested a steel net to support her head at the back when she required to sit up, her suffering being caused by the weight of her head on a diseased spine. During the last week of July she was sufficiently relieved by this contrivance to take great pleasure in an unexpected visit from her cousins Professor Lawson and his elder brother, whom she had not seen for fifteen years.
I enjoyed their coming [she wrote to Mrs. Blackie], they were so lively and so affectionate and enthusiastic about Edinburgh and Scotland. It was so funny, suddenly to find myself playing hostess to two charming young men. Hennie has only come home to renew her clothes and go back to Tobermory. I spent one evening with Lady Emma Campbell, and on Friday she brought Sir John McNeill to afternoon tea with me. She says that “with her infinite happiness an infinite terror is linked!” She is indescribably happy and so fascinating—all tenderness, womanliness, and brightness. Read Studious Women, by Bishop Dupan loup. I like it better than any of the contributions to the literature of the women question. Oh, how I hate this war—all wars! Do not you long for a King to come whose title to universal dominion shall be Righteousness, and in whose beneficent reign men shall learn war no more?
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- The Life of Isabella Bird , pp. 70 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1906