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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Mary Kingsley"”.
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’Only a Woman’: women travel writers and imperialism
… my study, I focus on the travels and writings of Mary Kingsley, who travelled in West Africa in the 1890s, wrote two books about her travels, and became a well-known figure on her return because of her support of trade and her criticisms of the British Crown Colony system. Rather than celebrate an …
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… writers of the late nineteenth century---Mary Kingsley, Olive Schreiner, and Flora Annie Steel---construct portraits of the colonized that reflect the particular fears and desires generated by the writers' historically and socially specific gendered subject positions within late Victorian …
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… end nineteenth centuries: Isabela Godin, Mary Kingsley, Kate Marsden and Isabella Bird. Recreating their journeys enabled reflection on their achievements and experiences at a time when their aspirations were disdained, they struggled to find sympathetic publishers, and had to use various …