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Women's Voices on Africa: A Century of Travel Writings

Women's Voices on Africa: A Century of Travel Writings

Princess Mary Louise
Forbes, Joan R.
Romero, Patricia W.

Paperback

Series: Topics in World History

AfricaGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1558760482
ISBN13: 9781558760486
Publisher: Markus Weiner Publ (Nj)
Published: Jan 1 2010
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European discoverers of the Dark Continent, women are rarely mentioned. This anthology of Victorian women's writings on Africa provides a fascinating overview of these women's roles as scholars, missionaries, adventurers, spies, and journalists, and gathers outstanding examples of their ground-breaking scholarly treatises, popular accounts, letters, articles, and thrilling adventure stories -- all of them firsthand documents of women's and African history. The writers include Mary Kingsley, famous for her ethnographic studies and travel writings; the intrepid journalists Katherine Fannin and Joan Rosita Torr Forbes; Princess Marie Louise, reporting on her diplomatic mission; Jocelyn Murray, witness of the 'Mau Mau' insurrection; and numerous missionaries.

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