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COLORADO AUTHORS.(Books)(Review)
; ...LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS By Isabella Lucy Bird; edited by Ernest S. Bernard (University of Oklahoma, $24.95) Isabella Lucy Bird was one of those amazing and preposterous...charming and beguiling. CAPTION(S): Photo Isabella Lucy Bird. Read more
A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.(Review)
; A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS By Isabella Lucy Bird. University of Oklahoma Press. $29-95. I abhor civilisation...stories, as we say in the trade, that are too good to check. Isabella Lucy Bird was born in 1831 in Yorkshire, the daughter of a... Read more
EVICTING PARISHIONERS IS LIKE MONEY-CHANGERS RULING THE TEMPLE.(Editorial)(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)
; To the Editor: As a lifelong Roman Catholic, it did my heart good to see Bishop Moynihan and Msgr. Yeazel emulating the example of Jesus this week by forcibly evicting parishioners of St. Mary's in Jamesville... Read more
Rex Makin: It's time city paid tribute to church leaders.(Features)
; ...he had not stolen any money, but his flock disliked his approach and he was without a job. After he consulted me I went to see Bishop Sheppard in Church House. He received me with great courtesy and after I explained to him the background of the priest he... Read more
Share the burden
; I was pleased to see Bishop Malone's guest column in the Sun Journal on March 20. It is good to see the head of the Catholic Diocese in Maine take a stand... Read more
Service planned in memory of hostel founder.(News)
; ...St Basils homeless hostel is taking place. Arranged for St Martin's in the Bull Ring on January 22 at 3pm, the event will see Bishop of Aston, the Rt Rev John Austin leading the service. Mr Milner passed away at 68, after suffering a brain haemorrhage in... Read more
Hunt for knife woman
; ...where she had threatened a woman with the knife on Friday. She was seen running through the crowd, which had gathered to see Bishop Michael Turnbull open the improvement scheme, before running into an alley connecting Newgate Street with Kingsway. She was... Read more
On Bishop Niederauer
; ...delightful person to be around." -- The Right Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, Episcopal bishop of Utah "We will be very sad to see Bishop Niederauer leaving our community. He's a wonderful leader for the Catholic community and a good friend to the Jewish community... Read more
Lady with a lust for adventure.
; Byline: FIDELMA COOK Caught in the prim, classic Victorian pose, there is nothing in the eyes of Isabella Lucy Bird to suggest she is other than a woman from a middleclass background who knows her station in life. From her bun to her well-upholster... Read more
Reviewed elsewhere. (M-O).(short book reviews)(Book Review)
; Macedo Soares, Lota de. See Bishop, Elizabeth. Mackenzie, William Lyon Mackenzie: A Political Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie. John Sewell. Toronto: Lorimer... Read more

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Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was an English traveler who made a remarkable series of journeys at the end of the 19th century. Bird was born in the English county of Yorkshire on October 15, 1831. Her... Read more
Bird, Isabella (Lucy)
Bird, Isabella (Lucy) (1831–1904), traveller, born in Yorkshire, who spent much of her life when in Britain with her sister in Edinburgh... Read more
Isabella Lucy (Bird) Bishop
1831-1904, English traveler and writer, first woman member of the Royal Geographical Society. She traveled extensively and wrote a number of books, including The English Woman in America (1856), The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875), A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Read more
pratincole
, common name for a large-winged shore bird including seven species in the subfamily Glareolinae of the family...Galachrysia are found from S Europe through Africa and S Asia. Stiltia isabella is the sole Australian species. Most pratincoles nest on the... Read more
travel writing
...travellers of this period made lasting names for themselves; examples include Mary Kingsley (1862–1900) and Isabella Bird . Travel writing developed into a genre in its own right in the 19th and 20th cents.: British writers have been particularly... Read more

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