Women's Voices on Africa

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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 Mau' insurrection, and numerous missionaries.