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3 unusual facts about Isabel Burton


Al-Majdal, Tiberias

Isabel Burton is perhaps the only 19th century traveller to mention the shrine for Mohammed Al-Ajami, while imparting other details on life in Al-Majdal.

Isabel Burton

Henry Raymond Arundell (1799–1886) of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, nephew of James Everard Arundell (1785–1834), 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour.

Her body and that of her husband lie in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's Roman Catholic Church Mortlake in south west London, in an elaborate tomb in the shape of a Bedouin tent which she designed.



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