Women's Voices on Africa - A Century of Travel Writings

Among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European ¿discoverers¿ of the ¿Dark Continent,¿ women are rarely mentioned. This anthology of Victorian women¿s writings on Africa provides a fascinating overview of these women¿s roles as scholars, missionaries, adventurers, spies, and journalists, and gathers outstanding examples of their ground-breaking scholarly treatises, popular accounts, letters, articles, and thrilling adventure stories ¿ all of them firsthand documents of women¿s and African history. The writers include Mary Kingsley, famous for her ethnographic studies and travel writings; the intrepid journalists Katherine Fannin and Joan Rosita Torr Forbes; Princess Marie Louise, reporting on her diplomatic mission; Jocelyn Murray, witness of the ¿Mau Maü insurrection; and numerous missionaries.

Summary

An anthology of Victorian women's writings on Africa. It offers an overview of the roles of women as scholars, missionaries, adventurers, spies and journalists, and gathers examples of their ground-breaking scholarly treatises, popular accounts, letters, articles and adventure stories.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia W. Romero
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9781558760486
• ISBN: 978-1-55876-048-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 465 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Travel > Travel guides > Africa