ABSTRACT
An enterprising lady traveller whose descriptions of her journeys were better known on the Continent than in England, died lately in Athens. A correspondent of La Donna says that Signora Carla Serena was born in Venice, but was educated in Germany, where she first learned to wish to emulate the career of the celebrated traveller, Ida Pfeiffer. Her marriage was one of great affection, and she had five children. The claims of business took them to London, where she opened her house to all Italian artists, and her husband for his generous hospitality received the name of the " father of Italians." The war of 1870 brought a number of 422French, emigrants to London, and she arranged a concert for their benefit. To assist this, she wrote an article in a newspaper, which so indisputably showed her talent that she began to write for the press. Probably to get materials for her writings, she now commenced travelling and visited first Scandinavia, and afterwards Greece and Constantinople, the Caspian, Russia, &c. She also passed a winter in Persia, where she was taken for a spy, despite her letters of recommendation and was conducted with a strong guard to the frontier.
