Friends of Hastings Cemetery


Charles Boulnois & Family, p.5

A Woman's Experiences continued:

In 1922 Miss Boulnois journeyed for 600 miles on pony-back through Kashmir to the confines of Tibet, known as Lesser Tibet, through which runs the road to Central Asia.  Only 26 passes for this journey are issued every year, and of these 16 are reserved for British officers.- Her experience during three months in that country are related in her book, 'Into Little Tibet.'  The variety of her interests is indicated in her writings, which include:

 Miss Boulnois will disembark from the Ascanius at South Africa.- http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83471677

…..a watercolour by Helen Mary Boulnois depicting The Wind Blown Tree, Pas -de-Calais;

Auntie Helen Mary goes to Little Thibet - by Helen Mary Boulnois

Mind Healing. An elementary treatise by Helen Mary Boulnois (1910)

Mystic India by Helen Mary Boulnois (1935)

Seattle Daily Times, Tuesday, June 14, 1960
Helen Mary Boulnois, 89, believed to have been the first white woman.…