Provisional Notes |
Traveller, travel writer and ethnologist.
critic of European colonialism.
Travelled to West Africa, alone (1893-1894). Visited Congo, Cabinda, Gabon etc. Revisited West Africa (starting in December 1894), visiting a.o. Sierra Leone, Accra, Gold Coast, Cameroon.
Collected plants, insects and other animal specimen for the British Museum. Studied the local population, religion, culture.
As a result of her travels wrote "Travels in West Africa", and was often invited as a guest lecturer.
Traveled to South Africa in 1899, during the Anglo-Boer War.
According to 'African History', started smoking in South Africa.
Died of enteric fever (Typhoid fever). |