Victorian traveller Mary Kingsley has been portrayed as a victim of
19th-century attitudes towards women, a brave and daring explorer,
an anti-imperialist agitator and even a feminist heroine. In this
biography, Dea Birkett examines and then confronts all these
portraits. Mary Kingsley was neither victim nor rebel, but a late
Victorian woman who manipulated the boundaries of her life without
ever openly overstepping them. She argued against women's suffrage
and for absolute differences between the races. She campaigned to
prevent women becoming members of the learned societies in Britain,
yet canoed up rapids in West Africa. Africa gave her a new life yet
in the end it killed her.
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