# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fanny-parkes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:11.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fanny-parkes"
name: "Fanny Parkes"
slug: "fanny-parkes"
description: "Fanny Parkes or Parks (1794–1875) was a travel writer from Wales, known for her extensive journals about colonial India, where she lived for 24 years. These are recorded in her memoirs Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque. in which she acknowledged authorship only by a signature in Urdu script. In 1970, extracts from her memoirs, Begums, Thugs and White Mughals, became available for the first time since their original appearance in 1850. The first biography, by Barbara Eaton, Fanny Parks: Intrepid Memsahib, appeared in 2018."
tagline: "British travel writer on India (1794-1875)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1794-12-08"
deathDate: "1875-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فانى پاركيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Parks"
    title: "Fanny Parks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Parks"
    title: "Fanny Parks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Parkes"
    title: "Fanny Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fanny_Parkes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q377361"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump