Mary Kingsley: Imperial AdventuressVictorian traveller Mary Kingsley has been portrayed as a victim of nineteenth-century attitudes towards women, a brave and daring explorer, an anti-imperialist agitator and even a feminist heroine. In this challenging and controversial new biography, Dea Birkett breaks through the shallow clichs which have defined this extraordinary female figure to frame a new image of the traveller as actively constructing her own history. For the first time, Mary Kingsley is seen as responding to and part of her time. |
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The Trail of Petticoats | 18 |
A Situation More Suited to Mr Stanley | 41 |
Part Two | 57 |
Copyright | |
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