| Seventeenth Century | Date first went abroad |
| The Countess of Winchilsea (Constantinople) | 1661 |
| Ann Fanshawe (Portugal, Spain) | 1662 |
| The Countess of Carlisle (Moscow) | 1663 |
| Katharine Trumbull (Paris) | 1685 |
| Eighteenth Century |
| Countess of Stair (Paris) | 1715 |
| Mary Wortley Montagu (Constantinople) | 1716 |
| Mrs Vigor (St Petersburg) | 1730 |
| Miss Tully (Tripoli) | 1783 |
| Emma Hamilton (Naples) | 1786 |
| Mary Elgin (Constantinople) | 1799 |
| Nineteenth Century |
| Elizabeth Broughton (Algiers) | 1806 |
| Elizabeth McNeill (Persia) | 1823 |
| Harriet Granville (The Hague, Paris) | 1824 |
| Anne Disbrowe (St Petersburg) | 1825 |
| Mary Sheil (Persia) | 1849 |
| Isabel Burton (Brazil, Damascus) | 1861 |
| Mary Fraser (Peking & Japan) | 1874 |
| Victoria Sackville (Washington) | 1881 |
| Mary Waddington (Moscow) | 1883 |
| Catherine Macartney (Kashgar) | 1898 |
| Susan Townley (China, Washington) | 1898 |
| Twentieth Century | |
| Ella Sykes (Kashgar) | 1915 |
| Vita Sackville-West (Persia) | 1926 |
| Marie-Noele Kelly (Brussels, Turkey) | 1929 |
| Norah Errock (Iraq) | 1930 |
| Iona Wright (Trebizond, Ethiopia, Persia) | 1939 |
| Evelyn Jackson (Uruguay) | 1939 |
| Pat Gore-Booth (Burma, Delhi) | 1940 |
| Diana Cooper (Paris) | 1944 |
| Diana Shipton (Kashgar) | 1946 |
| Masha Williams (Iraq) | 1947 |
| Peggy Trevelyan (Iraq, Moscow) | 1948 |
| Maureen Tweedy (Persia, Korea) | 1950 |
| Felicity Wakefield (Libya, the Lebanon) | 1951 |
| Ann Hibbert (Mongolia, Paris) | 1952 |
| Jennifer Hickman (New Zealand, Dublin, Chile) | 1959 |
| Jane Ewart-Biggs (Algeria, Paris, Dublin) | 1961 |
| Veronica Atkinson (Ecuador, Romania) | 1963 |
| Rosa Carless (Persia, Hungary) | 1963 |
| Angela Caccia (Bolivia) | 1963 |
| Sheila Whitney (China) | 1966 |
| Jennifer Duncan (Mozambique, Bolivia) | 1970 |
| Catherine Young (Syria) | 1970 |
| Annabel Hendry (Black) (Brussels) | 1991 |
| Chris Gardiner (Kyiv) | 1994 |
| Susie Tucker (Slovakia) | 1995 |
