Author:Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

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Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
(1856–1928)

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American writer, photographer and geographer, who became the first female board member of the National Geographic Society; her brother's diplomatic position gave her entree into regions inaccessible to ordinary travelers, leading to many adventures and well-regarded travel books of the East.

Works

Jinrikisha Days in Japan (1891)
Winter India (1903)
Java, the Garden of the East (1897) (transcription project)

Appletons' Guide-book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (1893) (external scan)
Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago (external scan)
Westward to the Far East: a guide to the principal cities of China and Japan with a note on Korea (1892) guidebook (external scan)
China, the Long-Lived Empire (1900) (external scan)
As the Hague Ordains; journal of a Russian Prisoner's wife in Japan (1914) fiction (external scan)

Articles

Besides several articles for the National Geographic Magazine,

“Japanese Theater” (pp. 685–693), in The Cosmopolitan X(6) (April 1891)
“The Wonderful Morning-Glories of Japan” (pp. 281–289), in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine LV(2) (December 1897)
“Asagao (Ipomea purpurea), the Morning Flower of Japan” (pp. 198–217), in Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London V(III) (May 1900)
“The Japanese Yano Ne” (pp. 356–372), in Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London VI(II) (March 1904)

Works about Scidmore

The Woman Who Shaped National Geographic, at www.nationalgeographic.com (2017)
Eliza's cherry trees: Japan's gift to America, (2011) by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman and Ju-Hong Chen

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1928, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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