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The list British women travel writers includes Mary Shelley, Anna Leonowens, Gertrude Bell, Mary Wollstonecraft and Fanny Kemble. The list consists of 180 members and 2 sublists.
  • 1.

    Magenta Devine
    British, TV Personality
    Magenta Devine
    Overview: Magenta Devine (born Kim Taylor; 4 November 1957 – 6 March 2019 (aged 61)) was a British television presenter, journalist and music promoter best known for presenting the travel programme Rough Guide and ...
    Date of birth: 4 November 1957
    Date of death: 6 March 2019
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Female
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    Women music promoters 14T
    2019 deaths 10,606T
    Channel 4 presenters 52T
  • 2.

    Mary Shelley
    English novelist
    Mary Shelley
    Overview: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (, ; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered ...
    Date of birth: 30 August 1797
    Date of death: 1 February 1851
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Shelley family 4T
    19th-century English women writers 351T
    Mary Shelley 3T
  • 3.

    Gertrude Bell
    English writer, traveller, political officer, and archaeologist
    Gertrude Bell
    Overview: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential ...
    Date of birth: 14 July 1868
    Date of death: 12 July 1926
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Female
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    Daughters of baronets 142T
    English Arabists 10T
    British women archaeologists 189T
  • 4.

    Anna Leonowens
    British educator (1831–1915)
    Anna Leonowens
    Overview: Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist.
    Date of birth: 26 November 1831
    Date of death: 19 January 1915
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: Singaporean
    Occupation: Teacher
    Gender: Female
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    Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery 118T
    British governesses 6T
    Expatriates in the Rattanakosin Kingdom 11T
  • 5.

    Mary Wollstonecraft
    English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    Overview: Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several ...
    Date of birth: 27 April 1759
    Date of death: 10 September 1797
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Schoolteachers from London 179T
    Spoken articles 779T
    18th-century British philosophers 19T
  • 6.

    Rebecca West
    British writer
    Rebecca West
    Overview: Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. An author who wrote ...
    Date of birth: 21 December 1892
    Date of death: 15 March 1983
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    Women literary critics 423T
    British women essayists 44T
    Recipients of the Benson Medal 42T
  • 7.

    Naomi Mitchison
    Scottish novelist and poet, 1897–1999
    Naomi Mitchison
    Overview: Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, CBE (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Often called the doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote over ...
    Date of birth: 1 November 1897
    Date of death: 11 January 1999
    Age: 101 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Scottish socialist feminists 14T
    Spouses of life peers 219T
    Women centenarians 1,246T
  • 8.

    Freya Stark
    Travel writer
    Freya Stark
    Overview: Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993), was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1893
    Date of death: 9 May 1993
    Age: 100 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Female
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    Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T
    Women centenarians 1,059T
    Explorers of Iran 19T
  • 9.

    Fanny Kemble
    English actress and writer (1809–1893)
    Fanny Kemble
    Overview: Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer, whose ...
    Date of birth: 27 November 1809
    Date of death: 15 January 1893
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century diarists 161T
    British women memoirists 150T
    19th-century English women writers 379T
  • 10.

    Violet Cressy-Marcks
    British explorer
    Overview: Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks (1895–1970) was a British explorer mainly active between the world wars.
    Date of birth: 1895
    Date of death: 1970
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society 60T
    People from West Wickham 9T
    English travel writers 320T
  • 11.

    Lady Florence Dixie
    Scottish writer (1855–1905)
    Lady Florence Dixie
    Overview: Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas; 25 May 1855 – 7 November 1905) was a Scottish writer, war correspondent, and feminist. Her account of travelling Across Patagonia, her children's books ...
    Date of birth: 24 May 1855
    Date of death: 7 November 1905
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century British women writers 653T
    20th-century British women writers 1,321T
    Wives of baronets 204T
  • 12.

    Elizabeth Craven
    British noble
    Elizabeth Craven
    Overview: Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley, sometimes unofficially styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley; 17 December 1750 – 13 January 1828), previously Elizabeth Craven, Baroness Craven ...
    Date of birth: 17 December 1750
    Date of death: 13 January 1828
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English women writers 351T
    Morganatic spouses of German royalty 40T
    18th-century British women writers 187T
  • 13.

    Jan Morris
    British historian
    Jan Morris
    Overview: Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL (2 October 1926 - 20 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1926
    Date of death: 20 November 2020
    Age: 94 (age at death)
    Nationality: Welsh
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Elizabeth Tuckniss (Married)
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    British women memoirists 141T
    21st-century Welsh women writers 51T
    20th-century Welsh women writers 96T
  • 14.

    Rowena Farre
    British writer
    Rowena Farre
    Overview: Rowena Farre (26 February 1921 – 9 January 1979) was a British writer who achieved fame for her first book Seal Morning, published in 1957. Seal Morning describes how, at the age of ten, the writer and ...
    Date of birth: 1921
    Date of death: 9 January 1979
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century British non-fiction writers 191T
    20th-century British women writers 1,321T
    Women autobiographers 496T
  • 15.

    Lesley Blanch
    British author, historian and traveller
    Lesley Blanch
    Overview: Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904, London – 7 May 2007, Garavan near Menton, France) was a British author, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton ...
    Date of birth: 6 June 1904
    Date of death: 7 May 2007
    Age: 102 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    British women memoirists 141T
    Women centenarians 1,059T
    Women memoirists 1,131T
  • 16.

    Elizabeth Missing Sewell
    British writer
    Elizabeth Missing Sewell
    Overview: Elizabeth Missing Sewell (19 February 1815 – 17 August 1906) was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century. As a home tutor, she devised a set of influential pri ...
    Date of birth: 19 February 1815
    Date of death: 17 August 1906
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    Siblings of Prime Ministers of New Zealand 10T
    19th-century English educators 65T
    19th-century British women writers 653T
  • 17.

    Georgiana Chatterton
    English, Author
    Georgiana Chatterton
    Overview: Georgiana, Lady Chatterton, later Mrs Dering (née Iremonger; 11 November 1806 – 6 February 1876) was an English aristocrat, traveller, and author. Her first travelogue, Rambles in the South of Ireland ...
    Date of birth: 11 November 1806
    Date of death: 6 February 1876
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
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    English women short story writers 14T
    19th-century English non-fiction writers 257T
    19th-century English women writers 572T
  • 18.

    Kitty Lee Jenner
    English author and artist
    Kitty Lee Jenner
    Overview: Kitty Lee Jenner (12 September 1853 – 21 October 1936) was an English artist and writer. She grew up in Cornwall and having studied art in London, she became a writer. She published six novels under ...
    Date of birth: 12 September 1853
    Date of death: 21 October 1936
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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  • 19.

    Elizabeth Murray (painter)
    English painter
    Overview: Elizabeth Murray (1815 – 8 December 1882), born Elizabeth Heaphy, was a British watercolourist. She primarily painted portraits and landscapes of the Canary Islands, where she lived for ten years ...
    Date of birth: 1815
    Date of death: 8 December 1882
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Occupation: Painter
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  • 20.

    Maria Riddell
    British poet
    Maria Riddell
    Overview: Maria Banks Riddell (née Woodley; 1772–1808) was a West Indies-born poet, naturalist, editor and travel writer, who was resident in Scotland and Wales. Robert Burns paid tribute to her as "a votary ...
    Date of birth: 1772
    Date of death: 1808
    Age: 35 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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    18th-century Scottish women writers 4T
    19th-century Scottish women writers 19T
    British Leeward Islands people 3T
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