Mary Kingsley : imperial adventuress
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Mary Kingsley : imperial adventuress
Macmillan, 1992
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Bibliography: p196-203. - Includes index
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Description
Victorian 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Preface - Chronology - A World of Her Own - The Trail of Petticoats - A Situation More Suited to Mr Stanley - Liverpool's Hired Assassin - Ethnological Bush Worker - A Lone Fight - The Most Dangerous Person on the Other Side - Homeward Bound - Kingsleyism - List of Characters - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index
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