A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird

The book is a compilation of letters that Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta, and was published in October 1879 1 2 by John Murray. Relationship with Mountain Jim is revealing as he reflects many of her own struggles withĪlienation. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States. Marginalized individuals, most notably Mountain Jim Nugent, a desperado. A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird, Bird Bird. Often seems at home not only in a wilderness setting, but with the company of A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Wilderness environment from feminist and psychoanalytical perspectives. This thesis examines Bird's conflicting feelings toward the Some of the changes she made are noteworthy and therefore, are identified andīird’s reaction to the Colorado landscape is a mixture of awe, enchantment,įascination, and fear. Letters to Henrietta, reveals that Bird did edit her letters before publication of A Lady’s To her sister Henrietta, but a recently published collection of her transcribed letters, Bird claimed that her memoir was written from letters she wrote home Vastly improved while traveling possible reasons for this improvement while she wasĪway from Victorian England and the demands of her homeland culture are explored.įrom her experiences in Colorado, she wrote the travel memoir, A Lady's Life in the Background biographical information informs the discussion ofīird’s travels and her lifelong invalidism, for which doctors prescribed travel.

Horseback and in the winter through the Colorado Rockies, stopping at cabins and Far more than I ever dared to hope for : Victorian traveler Isabella Bird in the Rocky Mountains UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document) Melanie Bundick Bruce (Creator) Institution The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW ) Web Site: Advisor Janet EllerbyĪbstract: At age forty-two Victorian Englishwoman Isabella Bird traveled alone on

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird