Wow, this was a rabbit-hole I did not expect
I was delving into my slightly fuzzy memory of an intrepid ?Victorian ?Edwardian lady, having just been reading something which I thought was rather dissing on the lady travellers of the pre-Great War era -
And by a process, which was that she wrote a book which included Outcast Siberian Lepers in the title, I discovered that her name was Kate Marsden (1859-1931) and the full title was On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (1892).
But that is not all. Quite apart from the search for a secret herbal cure for leprosy in the depths of Siberia, and the Jaeger clothing against the Siberian climate, and the elevated sponsorship she gained for this enterprise -
Her career on her return became dogged with Sapphic Scandal!!!
It would seem with some reason.
Yet she does not appear, to the best of my knowledge, among the Usual Suspects when listing the Victorian ladies who liked other ladies.
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