Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli
English traveller and travel writer (1832–1914)
Elizabeth "Nina" Sarah Mazuchelli (29 January 1832 – 14 February 1914) was an English traveller and travel writer. She published The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them in 1876, an account of a two-month expedition into the Himalayas.
Mazuchelli is the subject of a chapter of Sara Mills's book Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism. Mills points out that Mazuchelli does not fit the "conventional vision of the eccentric British spinster traveller figure" and "is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Victorian discourses of femininity".
Personal life
Mazuchelli was born in 1832. Her birth surname may have been Harris. She married Francis Mazuchelli (born 1820 or 1821) in 1853 in Geneva. He was born in Milan, emigrated to the United States, and was ordained in the Roman Catholic church before becoming an Anglican clergyman. Francis joined the army as a chaplain in 1857 and in 1858 the couple travelled to India for him to take up the position of Assistant Chaplain in H.M. Indian Service in Calcutta. In 1869 he was posted to Darjeeling, to which Nina reacted with joy, writing of "Emancipation from the depleting influences of heat almost unbearable, for the bracing and life-giving breezes which blow over regions of eternal ice and snow".
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