Charles George Kingsley

MK 's only sibling, her younger brother Charles , was born in 1866. They were not close despite the fact that they lived together, when they were not travelling, for Mary's entire life.

Even after the deaths of her parents, MK 's desire to travel still had to be accommodated to her brother Charles 's schedule. He had just completed an undistinguished Cambridge career and his return...

This move meant that MK could participate in a lively social, intellectual, and emotional environment first hand, rather than vicariously through books. Though according to biographer Katherine Frank she was not, as a woman...

MK 's family moved from Bexley Heath (now Bexleyheath) to 7 Mortimer Road in Cambridge, in order to accompany her brother Charles as he attended Christ's College .

In the winter, early 1893, she and her brother moved from Cambridge back to London, to a five-room flat at 100 Addison Road in Kensington.