About Lilian Leland
Lived 1857 – 1934 (aged 76). Lilian Leland was a writer.
Lilian Leland (16 October 1857 – 4 April 1934) was an American writer and traveler, who became well known for her 60,000 mile solo journey by land and sea, around the world.
Life Rachel Lilian Leland was born in New York on 16 October 1857, the daughter of Mary and Theron Leland. The only other woman recorded to have taken a comparable journey alone at that time was Ida Pfeiffer.
Leland married H. L. Andrews, the son of Stephen Pearl Andrews, abolitionist and freethinker.
Samuel Porter Putnam described her as "Always pleasant and cheerful in appearance, and never, under any circumstances, uttering a complaint, she is, at the same time, possessed of a quiet determination that carries her smilingly and safely over all difficulties."
Leland died in Queens, New York on 4 April 1934 from pneumonia.
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traveled around the world solo
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Lilian Leland was born on 16 October 1857.
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Lilian Leland died on 4 April 1934.
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Lilian Leland was a writer.
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