Lucy Sherrard Atkinson 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.
- Occupation
- writer, explorer, traveler
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 15, 1817
- Died
- November 13, 1893
