Women and empire 1750-1939. Africa / Volume III, (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Africa
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elizabeth Dimock.
• Editors: Dimock, Elizabeth
• Contents: Volume III (Africa), Part A. Africa and the Enlightenment: Gender, Sexuality, Race 1. William Smith, A New Voyage to Guinea (1744), pp. 220-1 2. C. P.Thunberg, Travels at the Cape of Good Hope (1772), pp. 28-30 3. John Barrow, An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798 (London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801), pp. 168-9 4. Sarah Baartman, 'Hottentot Venus', The Times, 26 Nov. 1810 5. 'A Princess of Dama' (photograph) (Alldridge Collection, 1870-90, Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Y30446F/18) 6. 'Swahili Girls' (photograph) (A. C. Gomes and Sons, 1910) (Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, University of Cambridge Library, Y3047A/25) Part B. Anti-slavery 7. Anthony Benezet, Some Historical Accounts of Guinea, and the General Disposition of its Inhabitants (1788), pp. 113-15 8. Anonymous, 'The Bereaved Mother' (British Library, Anti-Slavery Collections) 9. Mary Birkett, 'The African Slave Trade' 10. Mungo Park, Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa (1795), pp. 839, 844 11. Anna Maria Falconbridge, Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-1793 (1794), pp. 23-5 12. 'Appeal to the Ladies of Great Britain', British Emancipator, 1837 13. Thomas Pringle, 'Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope', Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter, No 20, 31 Jan., pp. 289-94 Part C. Slavery West Africa 14. Gold Coast Correspondence (1857) (Women Slave Owners, Anti-Slavery Papers, Rhodes House) 15. Anna Hinderer, Seventeen Years in Yoruba Country (1855; 1877 edn.), pp. 143-7 16. Anna Maria Falconbridge, Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone (1794), pp. 224-8 South Africa 17. 'The Life of Katie Jacobs, an Ex-Slave' (A.P.O., official organ of the African Political Organization, 1910) North Africa and East Coast Slavery 18. 'Slave-Trading in Rhodesia', Buluwayo Chronicle, 12 Dec. 1896 Part D. Queen Victoria, Africa, and Slavery: Some Personal Associations 19. Samuel Crowther, in E. Stock, History of the Church Missionary Society, Vol. 2 (account of his reception by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1851), pp. 111-13 20. F. Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and Residence at his Capital in the Years 1840 and 1850, in An African Princess: Sarah Bonetta Forbes, Vol. 2 (1966), pp. 206-9 21. 'Mrs Ricks Visits the Queen', Antigua Observer, 13 Aug. 1892 Part E: Women and Missions West Africa 22. Hannah Kilham, Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham Chiefly Compiled and Edited by her Daughter-in-Law Sarah Biller (1837), pp. 178-81, 184-6 23. Anna Hinderer, Seventeen Years in Yoruba Country (1877), pp. 110-11 South Africa 24. Photographic representations of Lovedale-Trained Mission Women: Tause Soga, Ntare Williams, and Martha Mzimbu (South Africa National Library, Cape Town) Uganda 25. Bishop A. R. Tucker, Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa (Edward Arnold, 1908), Vol. 2, pp. 28-9 26. Journal of Miss Edith Furley (Church Missionary Society Archives, 1895), pp. 8-14 27. Mrs Ruth Fisher (nee Hurditch), On the Borders of Pigmy-Land, 4th edn. (Marshall Brothers, 1905), pp. 71-3, 107-9 Part F. Women's Agency, Voices of Resistance, Imperial Postures West Africa 28. An Address by T. Sylvestre Williams in Port of Spain Trinidad on 2 June 1901, Port of Spain Gazette (reprinted in the Federalist and Grenada People, 13 June 1901) 29. Documents Concerning Women's Unrest, 1925 (Calabar and Aba Archives, Nigeria) 30. Adelaide Casely Hayford, 'A School in West Africa', Southern Workman, Oct. 1926 East Africa 31. F. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire, A Visit to Frederick Lugard's Camp by the Namasole, the Queen Mother of the Kabaka of Buganda (1894), pp. 470-1 32. Marjorie Perham, East African Journey: Kenya and Tanganyika, 1929 and 1930 (1976), p. 61 (on woman chiefs in Tanganyika, 1929) Egypt: Women and Nationalism 33. Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924, ed. and trans. M. Badran (1986), pp. 112-14 (memoirs of Huda Sharawi) 34. Letter from Esther Fahmy H. Wissa to Allenby (Foreign Office files, 1922) Southern Africa 35. Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (London: P. S. King, 1916), pp. 91-7 (extract concerning coloured women protesting against the Pass Laws in 1913) Part G. Sexuality, Prostitution, and Regulation 36. Anna Maria Falconbridge, Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-1793 (1794), pp. 56-8 Part H. White Women and the Orient: The Nile and Egypt 37. Mrs Eliza Fay, A Narrative of a Journey through Egypt (1779; 1925 edn.), pp. 75-81 38. Miss Platt, Journal of a Tour through Egypt, the Peninsula of Sinai, and the Holy Land in 1838 and 1839 (Adam Matthew Microfilm, Vol. 1), pp. 55-7, 70-1, 213-17, 275-81 39. Lady Duff Gordon, Letters from Egypt (Adam Matthew Microfilm), pp. 210-14 Part I. On Trek in Southern Africa 40. Alice Balfour, Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon, pp. 82-5, 47-51, 237-9 41. Rose Blennerhassett and Lucy Sleeman, Adventures in Mashonaland, By Two Hospital Nurses (1893), pp. 90-8 42. Dorothea Bleek, Diary (extract) Part J. White Women and Colonial Administrations West Africa 43. 'A Gold Coast Garden Party' (photograph) (Alldridge Collection, Royal Commonwealth Society Library, 1870-1890) 44. Mary Kingsley, 'The Hut-tax in Africa' (letter to the Spectator, 1898) 45. Mary Kingsley to John Holt (private letters, 13 and 19 Mar. 1898) (Highgate Institute of Scientific and Literary Institute) 46. 'Mary Kingsley', Journal of the African Society, No. 1, Oct. 1901, pp. 1-3 (editorial) 47. Correspondence between Mary Slessor and ADC Ito, Nigeria, Sept. 1910 (Falk Papers, Rhodes House) 48. Letters from Mrs Falk to her son (women's unrest, Aba Division, Nigeria) (Falk Papers, Rhodes House, 1929), pp. 121-3 South Africa 49. Lady Barker, A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877), pp. 250-4 50. Harriet Colenso, letter to Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, 26 Aug. 1883; and letter to Colenso from Shinganwa and Undabuko (6 July 1895, Rhodes House Anti-Slavery Papers) Part K. Flora Shaw and Margery Perham 51. Flora Shaw, Colonial Editor, The Times, 1 May 1896, p. 9 (leading article) 52. Testimony of Flora Shaw, in Minutes of Evidence, Select Committee on British South Africa, 25 May 1897, Vol. 9, cols. 8810-935 53. Flora Shaw, Colonial Editor, 'Nigeria', The Times, 8 Jan. 1897, p. 6 54. Correspondence between Flora, later Lady Lugard, to Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sept.-Nov. 1902 56. Margery Perham, extracts from her diary of a visit to Somaliland via Aden, 1921 (Rhodes House, Perham Papers, 34/3, 9-12) Part L. The South African War 1899-1902 56. Letter from Mrs Tibbie Steyn to her husband, in Karel Schoeman, In Liefde de Trou die lewe van president M. T. Steyn en mevrou Tibbie Steyn met 'n keuse uit hulle korrespondensi' (1987), pp. 53-7 57. Mrs (General) de la Rey, A Woman's Wanderings and Trials During the Anglo-Boer War (1903), pp. 47-9 58. Mrs Dosia Bagot, Shadows of the
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.40917124109034; Women -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Women -- Communication -- History; Sex role -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000558296
• Related ISBNs: 9781000560602; 9781003101871
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