Isabella 'Marie' Imandt

She was the daughter of local woman Anne McKenzie and Prussian immigrant Peter Imandt.

She began working at D.C Thomson's newspaper the Dundee Courier when she was 27, supporting herself from her earnings which was unusual for women at the time.

[3] At the time, Thomson said “These ladies are not only intrepid, but they are shrewd and observant, are possessed of undoubted literary ability, and are in complete sympathy with the stupendous task in which they are about to engage.”[4] They began their journey on February 16, 1894, and letters of introduction preceded them at every stop on the trip, with two column reports and sketches filed every week for the Dundee Courier and Weekly News, with many of their articles syndicated in London newspapers.

Maxwell and Imandt's trip was immortalised in an exhibition at McManus Galleries in their home city of Dundee, Scotland.

[7] Imandt never married and inherited a significant sum when her father passed in 1897, his grave marked by a two-metre-high (6.6 ft) tomb she had commissioned in his honour.