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'''Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli''' (1832 | {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} | ||
'''Elizabeth "Nina" Sarah Mazuchelli''' (29 January 1832 – 14 February 1914)<ref>Trevor Shaw & Christine Ballinger, ''A Biographical Bibliography'', Založba ZRC, 2020, [https://books.google.fr/books?id=x_wAEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA207&dq=Elizabeth%20Sarah%20Mazuchelli%2029%20January%201832%20%E2%80%93%2014%20February%201914&hl=fr&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q=Elizabeth%20Sarah%20Mazuchelli%2029%20January%201832%20%E2%80%93%2014%20February%201914&f=false p. 207].</ref> was an English traveller and travel writer. She published ''The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them'' in 1876, an account of a two-month expedition into the Himalayas.<ref name="mcloone" /><ref name=miller /> | |||
Mazuchelli is the subject of a chapter of [[Sara Mills (linguist)|Sara Mills]]'s book ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism''. Mills points out that Mazuchelli does not fit the "conventional vision of the eccentric British spinster traveller figure" and "is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Victorian discourses of femininity".<ref name=mills /> | Mazuchelli is the subject of a chapter of [[Sara Mills (linguist)|Sara Mills]]'s book ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism''. Mills points out that Mazuchelli does not fit the "conventional vision of the eccentric British spinster traveller figure" and "is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Victorian discourses of femininity".<ref name=mills /> | ||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
Mazuchelli was born in 1832. Her birth surname may have been Harris.<ref name=nee /> She married Francis Mazuchelli (born 1820<ref name=miller /> or 1821<ref name=gowar />) in 1853 in [[Geneva]].<ref name="gowar" /> He was born in Milan, emigrated to the United States, and was ordained in the Roman Catholic church before becoming an Anglican clergyman.<ref name=gowar /> Francis joined the army as a chaplain in 1857 and in 1858 the couple travelled to India for him to take up the position of Assistant Chaplain in H.M. Indian Service in Calcutta. In 1869 he was posted to [[Darjeeling]], to which Nina reacted with joy, writing of "Emancipation from the depleting influences of heat almost unbearable, for the bracing and life-giving breezes which blow over regions of eternal ice and snow".<ref name=miller /> It was from Darjeeling that they made the expedition across the [[Singalila Ridge]] about which she wrote her ''The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them''. | Mazuchelli was born in 1832. Her birth surname may have been Harris.<ref name=nee /> She married Francis Mazuchelli (born 1820<ref name=miller /> or 1821<ref name=gowar />) in 1853 in [[Geneva]].<ref name="gowar" /> He was born in Milan, emigrated to the United States, and was ordained in the Roman Catholic church before becoming an Anglican clergyman.<ref name=gowar /> Francis joined the army as a chaplain in 1857 and in 1858 the couple travelled to India for him to take up the position of Assistant Chaplain in H.M. Indian Service in Calcutta. In 1869 he was posted to [[Darjeeling]], to which Nina reacted with joy, writing of "Emancipation from the depleting influences of heat almost unbearable, for the bracing and life-giving breezes which blow over regions of eternal ice and snow".<ref name=miller /> It was from Darjeeling that they made the expedition across the [[Singalila Ridge]] about which she wrote her ''The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them''. | ||
The couple returned to England in 1875 and Francis became curate of [[Wrington]] in Somerset. They travelled to the [[Tatra Mountains|Tatra]] and [[Carpathian Mountains]], after which she wrote her second book, ''Magyarland''.<ref name=gowar /> He became Vicar of [[Felmersham]] in 1869 and on his retirement in 1895 they moved to [[Nantgaredig]] in Wales, where Nina died in 1914, Francis having died in 1901. Their grave is in [[Church of Holy Trinity, Burrington]] churchyard, and Nina left £1,000 in her will for charitable purposes in Burrington and the upkeep of their gravestone.<ref name=gowar /> | The couple returned to England in 1875 and Francis became curate of [[Wrington]] in Somerset. They travelled to the [[Tatra Mountains|Tatra]] and [[Carpathian Mountains]], after which she wrote her second book, ''Magyarland''.<ref name=gowar /> He became Vicar of [[Felmersham]] in 1869 and on his retirement in 1895 they moved to [[Nantgaredig]] in Wales, where Nina died in 1914, Francis having died in 1901. Their grave is in [[Church of Holy Trinity, Burrington]] churchyard, and Nina left £1,000 in her will for charitable purposes in Burrington and the upkeep of their gravestone.<ref name=gowar /> | ||
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<ref name="blcat-magyar">{{cite web |title=Catalogue record for "Magyarland" |url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSFX4330000000276412&indx=1&recIds=BLLSFX4330000000276412&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&vl(2084770705UI1)=all_items&tab=local_tab&dscnt=0&vl(freeText0)=%20Elizabeth%20%20Sarah%20%20%20MAZUCHELLI%20&vl(2084770704UI0)=creator&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&dstmp=1580902210752 |publisher=British Library |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> | <ref name="blcat-magyar">{{cite web |title=Catalogue record for "Magyarland" |url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSFX4330000000276412&indx=1&recIds=BLLSFX4330000000276412&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&vl(2084770705UI1)=all_items&tab=local_tab&dscnt=0&vl(freeText0)=%20Elizabeth%20%20Sarah%20%20%20MAZUCHELLI%20&vl(2084770704UI0)=creator&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&dstmp=1580902210752 |publisher=British Library |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="gowar">{{cite web |last1=Gowar |first1=John |title=A Wrington Curate |url=http://www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk/history/mazuchelli.html |website=Wrington History |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> | <ref name="gowar">{{cite web |last1=Gowar |first1=John |title=A Wrington Curate |url=http://www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk/history/mazuchelli.html |website=Wrington History |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Female explorers]] | [[Category:Female explorers]] | ||
[[Category:English explorers]] | [[Category:English explorers]] | ||