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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Rudyard Kipling
Despite RD's admiration for Cecil Rhodes , Alfred Milner , and Leander Starr Jameson , he also liked and respected the explorer Mary Kingsley , whose political views were nothing like this own.
Harper, Lila Marz. Solitary Travelers. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
180
In...
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kingsley
There is no record of contact between FK and probably the most famous writer in the family after her husband: Mary (Henrietta) Kingsley , the scientist and African explorer, Charles Kingsley's niece, the daughter of...
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
427
After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...
Textual Production Sir James George Frazer
He enquired about Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, etc of Uncivilised or Semi-Civilised Peoples.
Warner, Marina. “Into Thin Air”. London Review of Books, pp. 14-16.
16
Among those who replied was Mary Kingsley .
Warner, Marina. “Into Thin Air”. London Review of Books, pp. 14-16.
16
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Chanter
A daughter, Louisa Mary, was born to the Kingsley family in 1824, but died as an infant, before Charlotte was born. The writers Lucas Malet and Mary Kingsley were both Charlotte's nieces.
Chitty, Susan. The Beast and The Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
114
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Bird
She several times mentions the earlier traveller Mary Kingsley , from whom she had advice and a letter of introduction.
Bird, Isabella, and Pat Barr. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. Virago.
180
Her own exploits were reported in local papers, so that her reputation preceded her.
Bird, Isabella, and Pat Barr. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. Virago.
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