Rachel Lilian Leland (Andrews) (1857-after 1930) was an American woman raised as a Freethinker – which in Lilian’s case seems chiefly to have meant a disdain for religion, a lack of discipline, and a lifelong devotion (and the money) to doing just as she pleased. What she pleased to do in her early 20s was to travel, on a whim, around the world, by herself. For almost two years she traveled by train, steamship, rickshaw, carriage – whateve...
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