Who was... Mary Kingsley?
Mary Kingsley was an archetype, if not the archetype, of the formidable Victorian lady. Despite her physical frailty she managed to face the most hair-raising encounters in remote West Africa with an unshakeable aplomb that almost defies belief. She also made a number of not inconsiderable contributions to biology.
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