Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
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Name (Hebrew)
קינגסלי, מרי, 1862-1900
Name (Latin)
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
Date of birth
1862-10-13
Date of death
1900-06-03
Place of birth
London (England)
Place of death
Cape Town (South Africa)
Associated country
Great Britain
South Africa
Occupation
Authors
Ethnologists
Explorers
Ethnologist
Author
Explorer
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Language
English
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Travels in West Africa, 1997:t.p., etc. (Mary H. Kingsley; b. 1862 in London; a naturalist, ethnologist, sailor, scholar, and lecturer; she was commissioned to collect fish and reptiles for the British Museum, and in 1893, she traveled to the Congo, in 1895 she journeyedto Southern Nigeria; volunteered for nursing service during the Boer War; d. 06-03-1900)
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Mary Kingsley01
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File:Ctenopoma kingsleyae.jpg
Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937, Public domain
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Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0
File:MARY KINGSLEY 1862-1900 Traveller and ethnologist lived here as a child.jpg
Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Mary H Kingsley Wellcome L0046617.jpg
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File:Portrait of Mary Kingsley.jpg
A. G. Dew-Smith
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File:Portrait of Mary Kingsley (Ibibio, Nigeria), World Museum Liverpool (2).JPG
Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Pseudictator kingsleyae Juhel, 2015 Holotype (17753026841).jpg
Natural History Museum: Coleoptera Section from South Kensingon, London, UK, CC BY 2.0
File:The Funeral Cortege of Mary Kingsley.jpg
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900), Public domain
Wikipedia description:
For the English novelist, see Mary St Leger Kingsley. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, writer and explorer who made numerous travels through West Africa and wrote several books on her experiences there. Historians have credited Kingsley's work with helping to shape Western perceptions of the culture of Africa and colonialism.
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