Mary Kingsley
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English explorer, travel writer, and ethnographic observer known for her journeys through West Africa and for her influential writings on African societies and colonial
Mary Kingsley, photographed in the 1890s
The funeral cortege of Mary Kingsley at the pier in Simonstown: 1900
Photographic portrait from Kingsley's 1901 book West African Studies, published by Macmillan.
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Marianne North
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Marianne North was an English biologist and botanical artist, known for her plant and landscape paintings, extensive foreign travels, writings, plant discoveries, and the creation of a gallery at the
Mary Kingsley
…Exploration had not been seen as a fitting role for English women, though this was changing under the influence of figures such as Isabella Bird and Marianne North. African women were surprised that a woman of Kingsley's age was travelling without a man, and she was frequently asked why her husband was not…
North at her home in Ceylon before 1879. Photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Marianne North in Mrs Cameron's house in Ceylon (1877), by Julia Margaret Cameron
The Marianne North Gallery of Botanic Art in Kew Gardens
The Marianne North Gallery, interior