Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) CELEBRATED WOMEN TRAVELLERS. [Illustration: YOKOHAMA.] Celebrated Women Travellers OF THE _NINETEENTH CENTURY_ BY W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO. 1903 CONTENTS. PAGE COUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA 17 THE PRINCESS OF BELGIOJOSO 48 MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL 66 MADAME LEONIE D'AUNET 126 MISS FREDERIKA BREMER 134 MADEMOISELLE ALEXINA TINNE 184 MADAME IDA PFEIFFER 215 MADAME DE BOURBOULON 270 LADY HESTER STANHOPE 302 LADY BRASSEY 340 LADY MORGAN 379 MRS. TROLLOPE 385 MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU 404 MISS ISABELLA BIRD 418 LADY FLORENCE DIXIE 437 MISS GORDON CUMMING 443 FLORENCE AND ROSAMOND HILL 452 LADY BARKER 456 "MAGYARLAND" 458 WOMAN AS A TRAVELLER COUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA. The Princess Helena Koltzoff-Massalsky, better known by her pseudonym of Dora d'Istria,[1] came of the family of the Ghikas, formerly princes of Wallachia, and was born at Bucharest, on the 22nd of January, 1829. Through the care and conscientiousness of her instructor, Mons. Papadopoulos, and her own remarkable capacity, she acquired a very complete and comprehensive education. When but eleven years old, she composed a charming little story, and before she had reached womanhood, undertook a translation of the Iliad. She showed no inclination for the frivolous amusements of a frivolous society. Her view of life and its responsibilities was a serious one, and she addressed all her energies to the work of self-improvement and self-culture. She read and re-read the literary masterpieces of England, France and Germany. As a linguist she earned special distinction. "Her intellectual faculties," says her master, M. Papadopoulos, "expanded with so much rapidity, that the professors charged with her instruction could not keep any other pupil abreast of her in the same studies. Not only did she make a wholly unexpected and unhoped-for progress, but it became necessary for her teachers to employ with her a particular method: her genius could not submit to the restraint of ordinary rules."