Selina Bunbury (1802-1882) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and traveler. Bunbury was a prolific author, writing nearly a hundred volumes of both fiction and non-fiction, for young readers and a general audience, beginning with Visit to my Birthplace (1821). Her writing had a strong proselytizing and moral component. Her travel writing included My Early Adventures During the Peninsular Campaign of Napoleon (1834), Evenings in the Pyrenees (1845), A visit to the catacombs, or first Christian cemeteries of Rome, and a midnight visit to mount Vesuvius (1849), Evelyn, or, A journey from Stockholm to Rome in 1847-48 (1849), Life in Sweden (1853), A Summer in Northern Europe (1856), Russia After the War (1857) and My First Travels (1859).