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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Occupation Louisa Anne Meredith
In 1891 LAM took her fish paintings to Albert Charles Günther , the British Museum ichthyologist. He admired them, but to her annoyance proclaimed them unsound scientific records because, although beautiful and correct, for scientific...
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...
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.
qtd. in
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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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.
qtd. in
Warner, Marina. “Into Thin Air”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 14-16.
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Among those who replied was Mary Kingsley .
Warner, Marina. “Into Thin Air”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 14-16.
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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...
Travel Lucy Toulmin Smith
In 1888 LTS visited Paris in the company of her friend the explorer Mary Kingsley .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Mary Henrietta Kingsley

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