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In the space of 12 months they travelled over 26,000 miles and visited 10 countries. Their reporting ranged from visiting a women's prison in China and women who had travelled to
Seattle as ‘mail order brides’, to lighter fare such as attending a wedding in Turkey and shopping in Canada's largest
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Maxwell and she were forced to fight off French and Italian cabbies and porters who “simply rob the British female unless she can fight or has someone to fight for her”.
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department store. Upon returning from their assignment, the women were gifted gold bracelet watches and returned to their regular rounds at the Dundee
Courier. They also gave lectures and presented talks on their experiences. Maxwell and Imandt's trip was immortalised in an exhibition at
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She began working at D.C Thomson's newspaper the Dundee
Courier when she was 27, supporting herself from her earnings which was unusual for women at the time. After seven years at the newspaper, she was paired with a fellow female journalist 10 years her junior at the newspaper,
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Isabella ‘Marie’ Franziska Imandt was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1860. She was the daughter of local woman Anne McKenzie and
Prussian immigrant Peter Imandt. Her father earned the nickname 'Red Wolf' when he was younger and was close friends with
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in their home city of Dundee, Scotland. Imandt never married and inherited a significant sum when her father passed in 1897, his grave marked by a two-metre-high (6.6 ft) tomb she had commissioned in his honour.
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Scottish journalist and foreign correspondent
Isabella 'Marie' Imandt, from Dundee Central Library Local History Centre.
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