Mary Henrietta Kingsley--traveler, writer, and political activist--discovered no new territory, but she brought West African culture and politics to the attention of late-nineteenth-century British readers. John Flint credits her with having...

The scientific studies of Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) added much to European knowledge of African wildlife. She brought back one previously unknown species of fish, six new subspecies that had not been named, a previously unknown snake, and eight new...

Mary Kingsley Born October 13, 1862, Cambridge, England Died June 3, 1900, Simontown, South Africa Mary Kingsley was born in Cambridge, England, on October 13, 1862, into a prominent British family. Her father, George, was a doctor and the younger...

Primary Source: Finley, Robert. Thoughts on the Colonization of Free Blacks. Washington, D.C.: 1816. Secondary Sources: Brown, Isaac V. Memoir of the Reverend Robert Finley. New Brunswick, NJ: Terhune and Leston, 1819. Egerton, Douglas R....

1862-1900 English traveler who ventured to remote areas of Africa and nearby islands, collecting information to complete an unfinished book by her deceased father, George Henry Kingsley. While visiting the French Congo, she was brave enough to pass...

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 – June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. Kingsley was born in Islington. She was the daughter of George Kingsley (himself a...

MARY KINGSLEY: IMPERIAL ADVENTURESS Dea Birkett Macmillan Press xxvi+213 pp. 25 pounds Whatever damage she may have done to the long-term future of universities in general and traditional arts disciplines in particular Margaret Thatcher has certainly had a...

June 3rd, 1900 CHARACTER, COURAGE and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, (brother of the much better known novelist Charles Kingsley,) was a dedicated traveller. Mary grew up looking...