Isabella Strange Trotter

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Isabella Strange Trotter

1816–1878

Best known for a lively 19th-century travel book about North America, this English writer recorded what she saw with curiosity, detail, and a traveler’s eye for everyday life.

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First impressions of the New World on two travellers from the Old, in the autumn of 1858

First impressions of the New World on two travellers from the Old, in the autumn of 1858

by Isabella Strange Trotter

About the author

Isabella Strange Trotter was a 19th-century English writer best known for First Impressions of the New World on Two Travellers from the Old, in the Autumn of 1858. Library and public-domain records consistently identify her as the author of that travel narrative and give her life dates as 1816–1878.

Her surviving reputation rests mainly on that book, which follows a journey through Canada and the United States and preserves a reader-friendly snapshot of how a British traveler viewed North America in the mid-1800s. The work has remained accessible through major library catalogs and Project Gutenberg, helping modern readers discover her sharp, observant travel writing.

Reliable sources found here confirm the book and her dates, but they offer only limited biographical detail beyond that. For that reason, it is safest to present her as a travel writer whose known legacy centers on this single published account.