Walker, Mary Adelaide (1820 - 1905)
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| Short name | Walker, Mary Adelaide |
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| First name | Mary Adelaide |
| Birth name | Curtis |
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| Date of birth | 1820 |
| Date of death | 1905 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | London |
| Place of death | - |
| Lived in | Turkey |
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| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
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| Place(s) of Residence | Turkey |
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| Eastern Life and Scenery with Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Romania (1886) | 0 | 0 |
| Untrodden Paths in Romania (1888) | 0 | 0 |
| Old Tracks and New Landmarks: Wayside Sketches in Crete, Macedonia, Mitylene | 0 | 0 |
| Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes | 0 | 0 |
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Receptions of Walker, Mary Adelaide, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
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- Neacey, Markus, 'A crazy idea...all gone up in smoke. George Gissing and Miss Curtis', part II: The Curtis family, The Gissing Journal, vol. XLIII, no. 1 (January 2007)
In the 1840s she married Robert Walker, a wealthy man. By 1856 she was widowed, probably childless. She accompanied her brother Charles, a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), to Pera, Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1856, arriving soon after the Crimean war, and stayed in the East for approximately forty years. While in the Ottoman capital, she met Lady Hornby, known for her chronicle “Constantinople during the Crimean War” and illustrated her work. She also painted the daughter of the sultan Abdulmecid, probably Fatma Sultan, and the reigning Sultan (exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1867). Mary further travelled to Macedonia with her brother in 1861.