“To me, she’s the beginning of the whole feminist thing, and yet we never hear about her,”
At a time when most explorers were men, Boroughbridge-born Bird was certainly a trailblazer. Being prescribed ‘mountain air’ to cure her malaise, in 1873 she set off on her travels across the globe to find exactly that.
“These are like the unsung, forgotten heroes,” muses Leeds-born Brown, 47. “And I’ve never heard of her. It’s not in our history books. Why are all these women not being praised and celebrated?”
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