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Isabella Bird Bishop (1831–1904) and Her Travels in Persia and Kurdistan in 1890

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jennifer Scarce
Jennifer Scarce*
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland
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Abstract

Isabella Bird Bishop was one of the remarkable Victorian women who traveled independently in both Persia and the neighboring countries of the Ottoman Empire. She came to Persia as a very experienced and respected travel writer who had journeyed alone and adventurously in the Americas, Australia, Japan and Malaya. Her travels in Persia in 1890 were possibly the hardest and most challenging of her life. She meticulously observed, recorded and finally published all that she saw—the terrain, meetings with the Qajar court, Bakhtiari and Kurdish tribal chiefs and the families, and the daily life and customs of the people.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , March 2011 , pp. 243 - 250
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2011

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Footnotes

This article is an expanded version of the paper presented by the author at the seventh conference of the International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) in Paris in June 2007 on the theme of “Diplomats and Travelers in the Qajar Era.”

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6 Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Vol. 1, Preface, vii.

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9 Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Vol. 1, Preface, viii.

10 Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Vol. 1, Letter VI, 139.

11 Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Vol. 1, Letter VIII, 183–184.

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16 Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. Vol. 2, Letter XXV, p. 192.