Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Mary Kingsley | What was worse, in Kingsley's opinion, was that she was sensationalized as a New Woman. |
| Reception | Rosita Forbes | RF
was internationally recognised as a traveller by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
, as well of several parallel institutions in other countries. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 July 1967): 12 |
| Reception | Isabella Bird | IB
, already a member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
, became the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
in London. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994. 181 |
| Reception | Freya Stark | Recommended by the Book Society
and the Book Guild
, The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS
, rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen |
| Reception | Isabella Bird | IB
became the first woman to address the Royal Geographical Society
; she spoke to the society about her five-month-long journey in northwest China. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994. 203-4 |
| Reception | Mary Somerville | The Royal Geographical Society
of Britain awarded MS
its Victoria Gold Medal. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16. 212 |
| Reception | Isabella Bird | The Royal Geographical Society
in London invited IB
to speak to them in 1891 after her travels through India and Persia; she was the first woman they had ever asked. She declined because the Society... |
| Reception | Isabella Bird | When the Scottish Society was incorporated by the Royal Geographical Society
in London, she was named a fellow by the English as well as the Scottish society, the first woman to be so honoured... |
| Textual Features | Freya Stark | This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS
established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society
and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| Textual Production | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
published a number of introductions or contributions to the works of others: about ski-ing, sailing, travel, and her philosophy of travel. Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php. |
| Textual Production | Isabella Bird | Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray
, are now in the National Library of Scotland
. Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
and the Royal Geographical Society
hold some... |
| Travel | Freya Stark | Stark received the Royal Geographical Society
's Founder's Gold Medal for her efforts, though the trip was marred from an early stage by the travellers' physical illnesses and personal conflicts. However, Stark left having pinpointed... |
| Travel | Richard Francis Burton | With John Speke
and sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society
, RFB
sought in Africa for the source of the Nile, covering what is now Sudan and Uganda. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. |
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