today. These women, such as Blair Niles, who was a founding member of The Society of Women Geographers, did not sit idly by waiting for change to occur. More of this genre of writing would include Rose Wilder Lane and her companion “Troub” or Helen Dore Boylston, as mentioned earlier in their trek across 1920’s Europe, Jan Morris, a travel writer who traveled the world in about fifty years of travel writing, and Elizabeth Cochrane, also known as Nellie Bly, who would become the first person to circumnavigate