**Beatrix Manico Gull** (1869–1951) Beatrix Manico Gull — born Mary Beatrix Nunns in Sussex, England — was a British journalist, traveller, and one of the more adventurous literary women of the early twentieth century. She first married Herbert Timbrell Bulstrode in 1891, under whose surname (Beatrix Bulstrode) she first made her name; he died in 1911. She later married Edward Manico Gull, a China-based customs official, and is known in her later published work under the name Beatrix Manico Gull. A working journalist and longtime council member of the Society of Women Journalists, Gull combined her writing career with an appetite for remote travel unusual for a woman of her era. Beginning in September 1911 she undertook an ambitious overland journey from southern China, up the Yangtze River to Beijing, and on into Mongolia, accompanied by local guides and a Finnish missionary. A second expedition, made together with her future husband Edward Manico Gull, carried her across Siberia and into northern Mongolia via the Trans-Siberian Railway — a trip she reportedly funded for around $1,500 and undertook armed with a Mauser C96 pistol, two Colt revolvers, and a shotgun. These travels furnished the material for her best-known book, *A Tour in Mongolia* (1920), a firsthand account — opening in Beijing — of journeys by cart, pony, and caravan through Mongol territory, weaving observations on local religion, culture, and landscape into the wider political tensions among China, Russia, and Japan at the time. The book carried an introduction by David Fraser addressing the region's political situation. In 1937 she returned to China for humanitarian relief work. She died in Surrey, England, in 1951. Sources: - [Beatrix Bulstrode - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Bulstrode) - [A tour in Mongolia by Beatrix Manico Gull | Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76610) - [Books by Gull, Beatrix Manico (sorted by popularity)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/58521)
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