The Fearless Female Explorer Who Challenged Victorian Racism? | Mary Kingsley

AUG 06 1893 · 17:31

There are many famous names from the British empire's history, some good, many terrible, and some who are forgotten but deserve not to be - Mary Kingsley is one of these. She had a reclusive upbringing and youth, only emerging as her own person in her early 30s. But her travels to West Africa were n