Lucy Atkinson

Lucy Sherrard Atkinson (née Finley; 15 April 1817 – 13 November 1893) was an English explorer and author who travelled throughout Central Asia and Siberia during the mid-19th century. She worked as a governess in St. Petersburg, Russia and married English artist Thomas Witlam Atkinson in Moscow in 1848. The couple spent the next five years traveling thousands of miles together to remote areas on the fringes of the Russian and Chinese empires. During their travels a son was born to her in present-day Kazakhstan.

In 1863, Atkinson published a book Recollections of Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants about her travels.