Nona Maria Stephenson Bellairs (1824–1897) was an English author of travel guides, botanical guidebooks, and novels.
[1] Her mother was Dorothy (Mackenzie) Bellairs, the daughter of a wealthy sugar planter in the West Indies, and her father was the Rev.
Henry Bellairs (1790-1872), who was at various times in his career rector of Bedworth in Warwickshire, vicar of Hunsingore in Yorkshire, and an honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral.
[1][2] Bellairs wrote several travel books that doubled as botanical guidebooks, the first of which, Going Abroad (1857), was set in France and Italy.
Her hybrid approach is evident in this extract from the book's table of contents: "Nice — The English Church — Asplenium Trichomanes — Mentone — A Country Carnival — Cheilanthes Odora".