Isabella Bird is the first dinner guest to arrive at Marlene's celebration.

Another English Victorian, Isabella Bird, fared better.

Isabella Bird, born in 1831, even discovered that the physical ailments she suffered in urban society vanished when she was in the outback.

In 1878, Isabella Bird reported of the city in her travelogue:

Consider the wonderful, nerve-racking Isabella Bird, a 19th-century British spinster.

Guests included Mark Twain and Isabella Bird.

A monument commemorating Isabella Bird can be seen in the town centre.

Isabella Bird, who knew Dora in England, visited the Greenwells in 1873.

Isabella Bird, the fragile Victorian traveller, twitters on about her angst and ailments.

Isabella Bird (1831-1904) published more than a dozen books on her global travels, including: