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Mary Kingsley

English ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer.

Born October 13th, 1862 in Islington. [ref]

Died June 3rd, 1900 at 37 years old in Simon's Town (typhoid fever). [ref]

Occupations
anthropologist, botanical collector, explorer, nurse, suffragist, writer
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