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Recollections & Further Recollections of a Happy Life: being the Autobiography of Marianne North book cover

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Recollections & Further Recollections of a Happy Life being the Autobiography of Marianne North

Edited By Mrs John Addington Symonds
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Today Marianne North is remembered for the gallery in Kew Garden named after her. Alongside Isabella Bird, she was the most popular and well-known lady-traveller in nineteenth-century England. She travelled to all parts of the world and left numerous botanical drawings. Unlike Isabella Bird, however, she did not leave any travel records and only the three volumes reprinted here are the textual... Read more

Volumes I–II  Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North Mrs John Addington Symonds  Early Days and Home Life.  Canada and United States.  Jamaica.  Brazil. Teneriffe-California-Japan-Singapore. Borneo and Java. Ceylon and Home. India. Hill Places in India. Rajputana. Second Visit at Borneo-Queensland-New South Wales. Western Australia-Tasmania-New Zealand. South Africa. Seychelles Islands. Chilli. Volume III  Further Recollections of a Happy Life, selected from the Journals of Marianne North, 1859–1869  Mrs John Addington Symonds  In the Pyrenees and Spain.  Switzerland-Italy-Trieste-Pola-Fiume. Adriatic and Syria.  Egypt.  Palestine and Syria.  In the Dolomite Alps, Australia.  Mentone and Sicily.  Syracuse and its Neighbourhood—Taormina, Monte Generoso, and Trafoi.

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Edited by Mrs. John Addington Symonds, sister of Marianne North.

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