Isabel Savory

Isabel Savory was a British travel writer active around the turn of the 20th century. She is best known for A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India (1900), a book that reflects her interest in travel, sport, and firsthand reporting.

Her work suggests a writer drawn to places beyond the usual tourist path, with a style shaped by curiosity and a taste for adventure. She also wrote The Romantic Roussillon: In the French Pyrenees, showing that her interests ranged beyond India to other distinctive landscapes and cultures.

While detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from the sources found here, her surviving books present her as a vivid, energetic observer who wrote from experience rather than from a distance.