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Isabel Savory
1869–1966
An adventurous English travel writer and sportswoman, she turned journeys through India, Morocco, and the French Pyrenees into lively books full of movement, observation, and personality. Her work offers a vivid glimpse of travel at the turn of the twentieth century.
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In the tail of the peacock
by Isabel Savory
About the author
Born in 1869, Isabel Savory was an English writer remembered for travel books that blend personal adventure with sharp, readable description. She wrote about places she explored herself, and her published works include A Sportswoman in India (1900), In the Tail of the Peacock (1903), and The Romantic Roussillon: In the French Pyrenees (1919).
Savory stood out for writing as an active traveler rather than a distant observer. Accounts of her journeys describe her riding on horseback and camel and recording what she saw with wit and energy, especially in India and North Africa. That direct, first-hand quality gives her books much of their appeal today.
She died in 1966. Although not as widely known now as some travel writers of her era, her books remain of interest to readers drawn to women’s travel writing, colonial-era journeys, and memoirs of adventure.