[Vwoolf] Lily Bristow or Lily Briscoe?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

LILY BRISTOW AS A POSSIBLE INSPIRATION FOR LILY BRISCOE IN “TO THE 
LIGHTHOUSE”

See "Ladies on High; Victorian Women Mountaineers":
http://vichist.blogspot.com/search?q=lily+bristow

Lily Bristow studied at Art School in Bushey, where Hubert von Herkomer 
focused on watercolour painting, and photography as an art form.  She was 
an illustrator for the first edition of Albert Mummery's classic book ‘My 
Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus’, designed ecclesiastical embroideries in 
association with Miss Ann Macbeth of the Glasgow School of Art, and a water 
colour and pencil painting 'A Windswept Track' was in a sale of fine art in 
1991.

Lily Bristow:
Born Emily Caroline Bristow in Brixton, London 1864. Eldest of 9 children.
Father George Ledgard Bristow, London solicitor.
Never married.
Died Surrey 1935.

See also: “Shackles of Convention: Women Mountaineers before 1914”, by Dr 
Malcolm Craig (2013):
https://www.sigmapress.co.uk/product-page/shackles-of-convention

Stuart
(Day 55)

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