Tweedie, Alec

Biography

Ethel Brailliana/Brilliana Harley (c1867- 1940), later Mrs. Alec Tweedie, was the British author of the travel books A Girl's Ride in Iceland (1889), A Winter Jaunt to Norway (1894), Through Finland in Carts (1897), Mexico as I Saw it (1901), Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life (1912) and America as I Saw it; or, America Revisited (1913), amongst others. She was one of the first professional women travel writers.

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