Mary Kingsley

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Standard Name: Kingsley, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
MK 's two lengthy travel books about West Africa feature personal experience (including sharply amusing anecdotes) and comment on African culture, politics, and biology. As well as books, she penned essays for periodicals and letters to newspapers on the same themes, and a memoir of her father. Though viewed by some as a New Woman figure because of her independence as a late Victorian traveller and a thinker, she was opposed to the contemporary women's movement, and her critique of the crown colony system was aimed at improving rather than dismantling it.
Black and white photograph of Mary Kingsley in profile, seated in a wooden chair. She is wearing a black pillbox hat that ties under her chin, and a dark dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lucy Toulmin Smith
Smith was Kingsley 's mentor in scholarly matters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Lucy Toulmin Smith
In 1886, soon after the publication of the York Plays, LTS edited at the request of Lady Caroline KerrisonA Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century, a short, anonymous collection of poetry, prose...
Friends, Associates Annie S. Swan
She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward , Lucas Malet , Lucy Clifford , Sarah Grand , Violet Hunt
Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She met diplomat Lord Cromer , newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe (then Alfred Harmsworth), industrialist Arthur Balfour
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
She followed this with many more instructional works for children, which address such topics as human biology (in How You Began, 1928, and How You Are Made1932) and the relation of food to...
Health Ethel Wilson
Reading still offered EW considerable solace and she praised the travel writing of Mary Kingsley and Simon Fraser . However, her daily routine came to consist of exercises in physical therapy to continue to rehabilitate...

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