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It could be said that Elizabeth's love for traveling and photography was stumbled upon by accident. Months after her marriage to captain Fred Burnaby she embark on a journey in pursuit to solve her ongoing health issues. This journey to find a cure for her lung trouble led Elizabeth to Chamonix in 1881 this where she "saw for the first time those glacier-clad alpine ranges which were to mean so much to me for the rest of my life" within days she embarked on a journey through the Switz countryside. From then on the Greystones native traveled through Italy,Switzerland and Norway recording an incredible life through photography. Elizabeth Hawkins paired her love of mountaineering with photography taking amazing photos at the peaks of mountains that had never been seen before at close quarters. Elizabeth developed and printed her own work often in terrible conditions and would sell them in aid of charity or give them as a prize at mountaineering events. Sadly very little of Elizabeth's photography work is left from her days mountaineering and traveling.

Raughter R.(2012) A Victorian Lady in the High Alps,Elizabeth Hawkins-Witshed of Killincarrick

Murtagh P.(2013)Victorian-era Women photographers celeberated