article_snippet: Isabella Bird's adopted Chinese dress as the tight fitting, tailored clothes Isabella Bird's was used to were considered offensive by the local population.
article_snippet: However Isabella Bird's did not quite escape the curiosity or hostility of the locals who were not used to seeing a foreigner, let alone a foreign woman, travelling.
article_snippet: This could range from curiosity to extreme hostility – from holes drilled through the walls of Isabella Bird's room followed by whispering and giggling, to a full-blown riot with shouts of "Foreign devil", "Child eater".'
article_snippet: Isabella Bird's also received the scorn of Isabella Bird's countrymen, with archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard writing to Isabella Bird's publisher's son: '
article_snippet: I must say I think Isabella Bird's must be devoid of all delicacy and modesty who could travel as Isabella Bird's did, without a female attendant among a crowd of dirty Persian muleteers and others.'