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Elizabeth wrote her books under both her former name, Elizabeth Hawkins Whitshed and her latter name of Aubrey Le Blond. She took great joy in the authorship of her books along with her love of photography alike. Her first book was published was published in 1883, The High Alps of Winter, the precursor to a series of books and articles describing her mountaineering experiences. However she would later decide to turn her hand to fiction, travel writing and family history. Although her talent for writing books was evident, she was most fond of photography, carrying her camera on her shoulder everywhere she went. Between her most widely known hobbies of mountaineering, photography and writing books, there are currently 69 works in 220 publications in 3 languages and 2,228 library holdings known, worldwide.
Books Written by Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed:
- The High Alps in Winter
- Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun
- Adventures on the Roof of the World
- True Tales of Mountain Adventure: For non-climbers Young and Old
- My Home in the Alps
- High Life of Towers and Silence
- Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentick: Her Life and times, 1715-1800
- The Old Gardens of Italy How to Visit them
- Day In, Day Out
- Raughter, R. (2012). A Victorian Lady in the High Alps, Elizabeth Hawkins-Witshed of Killincarrick.
https://www.countywicklowheritage.org/page_id__27_path__0p3.aspx
- Raughter, R. (2011) Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed: From Killincarrick to the roof of the world.