Jemima Kindersley

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JK is an original and compelling writer, both in her travel book (the earliest travel narrative by an Englishwoman to deal with South America, Africa, and India, written in 1764-9 and published in 1777) and her translated feminist essay.

Milestones

Probably 2 October 1741

Jemima Wicksteed, later JK , was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

June 1764

JK wrote, from Santa Cruz on Tenerife, the first letter which she later included in her travel book.
Kindersley, Jemima. Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies. J. Nourse.
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By June 1777

JK published a travel book, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, The Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
43 (1777): 439

Shortly before 25 April 1809

JK died in Marylebone, London, in her late sixties. This was the day of her funeral.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

Probably 2 October 1741

Jemima Wicksteed, later JK , was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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