C. F. Gordon Cumming

Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1837–1924) was a Scottish traveler, painter and writer. One of twelve children of a Morayshire baronet, she began traveling at thirty with a visit to a sister in India and spent the next dozen years in Ceylon, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, California, China and Japan, usually as the guest of colonial officials and missionaries, producing hundreds of watercolors on the way. Her books include From the Hebrides to the Himalayas, At Home in Fiji, A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War, Wanderings in China and Two Happy Years in Ceylon (1892). Her Memories appeared in 1904.