Lady Florence Dixie

Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (24 May 1855 – 7 November 1905) was a British traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist.

Dixie was a sister of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, who gave his name to the rules of boxing and who brought down Oscar Wilde.

Early life

Born in Scotland at Cummertrees, Dumfries, Lady Florence Douglas was the daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry and his wife Caroline, daughter of General Sir William Clayton, 5th Baronet (1786–1866), Member of Parliament for Great Marlow."DIXIE, Lady Florence, poet, novelist, writer; explorer and a keen champion of Woman's Rights" in "Who Was Who" online at [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=7345683 7345683] at xreferplus.com (subscription required), accessed 11 March 2008] She had a twin brother, Lord James Douglas (d. 1891), an older sister, Lady Gertrude Douglas (1842-1893), and three older brothers: John, Viscount Drunlanrig (1844–1900), later the 9th Marquess of Queensberry; Lord Francis Douglas (1847–1865), who died in a climbing accident on the Matterhorn; and Lord Archibald Douglas (1850–1938), who became a clergyman. [G.E. Cokayne "et al.", eds., "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant", new edition, 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; new edition, 2000), volume X, page 694] [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Fdixie.htm Lady Florence Dixie] at spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)]

In 1860, Lady Florence's father died in what was reported as a shooting accident, but was widely believed to have been suicide. In 1862 his widow converted herself and her youngest children, Florence and her brother James, to Roman Catholicism, taking them to live in Paris for two years. This led the children's guardians to threaten Lady Queensberry with the loss of her children, a real possibility at a time when women's rights were very limited. In later life, Lady Florence campaigned on such injustices, highlighted in her book "The Story of Ijarn" (1903).Middleton, Dorothy, "Dixie [née Douglas] , Florence Caroline, Lady Dixie (1855–1905)" in "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004]

Lady Florence was educated at home and, after returning from Paris, in a convent school. She hated the school's repressiveness and the dogmatism of its religious teaching and took to writing poetry. Her childhood verses were published in 1902 as "Songs of a Child", under the pseudonym 'Darling'.

From an early age, Lady Florence showed a love of sport and travel and a gift for writing. [http://images.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp67199 Lady Florence Caroline Dixie] online at the web site of the National Portrait Gallery npg.org.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)]

Marriage and children

[
Bosworth Hall in Leicestershire ] On 3 April 1875, at the age of nineteen, Lady Florence Douglas married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet (1851-1924), known as "Sir A.B.C.D." or "Beau". His father of the same name, the 10th Baronet, had died in 1872. [ [http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1872.htm The Illustrated London News 1872 : Events of this year in the Illustrated London News] online at iln.org.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)] The young couple lived at first at Bosworth Hall, near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. They had two sons, George Douglas (born 18 January 1876), who later became the 12th baronet, and Albert Edward Wolstan (born 26 September 1878, died 1940), whose godfather was the Prince of Wales. [ [http://staleyandco.com/Genealogy/Secondary/Burke.pdf Burke] online at staleyandco.com (accessed 11 March 2008)] Sir Alexander Beaumont Dixie was High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1876. [ [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/your_council/about_leicestershire/leicestershire_lieutenancy_index/leicestershire_lieutenancy_high_sheriff.htm The Office of High Sheriff] online at leics.gov.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)] In 1877, Lady Florence published her first book, "Abel Avenged: a Dramatic Tragedy".

Husband and wife shared a love of adventure and the outdoor life, but a shadow was cast over them by his habit of gambling for high stakes; eventually his ancestral home and estate at Bosworth were sold to pay his debts. After this, in the 1880s, the couple moved to Glen Stewart, one of the houses on Lord Queensberry's Scottish estate of Kinmount, previously the home of Lady Florence's mother, the Dowager Marchioness.

Problem family

Several members of the Queensberry family were affected by mental illness. As mentioned above, Lady Florence's father is believed to have committed suicide. Her twin brother, Lord James Douglas (known to his family as Jim), was deeply attached to her and was heartbroken when she married. In 1885, he tried to abduct a young girl, and after that became ever more manic. In 1888, he married a rich woman with a ten-year-old son, but this proved disastrous.cite book |title= Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas |last= Murray |first= Douglas |authorlink= |year=2000 |publisher= Hyperion |location= New York |isbn= |pages= |url= http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/murray-bosie.html |accessdate = 2008-03-08] Separated from his twin sister 'Florrie', James drank himself into a deep depression and in 1891 committed suicide by cutting his throat.

Lady Florence's eldest brother, the 9th Marquess of Queensbury, is remembered for his contribution to the sport of boxing and to the downfall of the writer Oscar Wilde. "The Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing", written in 1865 by John Graham Chambers and published in 1867, were endorsed by the young Queensberry, an enthusiastic amateur boxer, and thus took his name. In 1887, Queensberry and his wife Sibyl Montgomery were divorced. During the 1890s, their youngest son, Lady Florence's nephew, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), had a close relationship with Wilde, to the growing fury of his father, who accused the writer of "posing as a somdomite" ("sic"). Wilde sued Queensberry for libel, a bold step which ultimately led to his downfall and imprisonment. [Ellman, Richard, "Oscar Wilde" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, ISBN 978-0394554846)]

Lady Florence's great-nephew Raymond Douglas (1902-1964), the only child of Lord Alfred, spent most of his life in a mental hospital. [Fryer , Jonathan, " [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sheila-colman-729538.html Sheila Colman] ", obituary in "The Independent" dated 27 November 2001 online at independent.co.uk, accessed 15 July 2008]

Travels in Patagonia

Weary of her life in English society, during 1878-1879 Dixie travelled with her husband, two of her brothers and a friend in Patagonia in South America.Theakstone, John, [http://victorianresearch.org/travelbibnotes2003.pdf "Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works by Women Travellers, 1837-1910"] (dated Summer 2003) online at victorianresearch.org (accessed 8 March 2008)] There, she hunted big game and ate it with gusto. On one occasion, while riding on the prairie, her party was overtaken by a huge prairie fire, and her horse bolted with her. On her return, Dixie wrote her book "Across Patagonia" (1880). A hotel at Puerto Natales in the Chilean part of Patagonia is named the "Hotel Lady Florence Dixie" in her honour. [ [http://www.chileanpatagonia.com/florence/ Hotel Lady Florence Dixie] online at chileanpatagonia.com (accessed 8 March 2008)] When she returned from Patagonia, Dixie brought home with her a jaguar, which she called Affums and kept as a pet. Affums killed several deer in Windsor Great Park and had to be sent to a zoo. [cite book |title= Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas |last= Murray |first= Douglas |authorlink= |year=2000 |publisher= Hyperion |location= New York |isbn= |pages= p. 18]

outh African war correspondent and Zululand

In 1881, Dixie was appointed as a field correspondent of the "Morning Post" of London to cover the First Boer War (1880-1881) and the aftermath of the Anglo-Zulu War. Her husband went out to South Africa with her. In Cape Town, she stayed with the Governor of the Cape Colony. She visited Zululand, and on her return interviewed the Zulu king Cetshwayo, who was being held in detention by the British.

Her reports, followed by her "A Defense of Zululand and Its King from the Blue Book" (1882) and "In the Land of Misfortune" (1882), were instrumental in Cetshwayo's brief restoration to his throne in 1883. [ [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dixie-La.html Lady Florence Caroline Douglas Dixie] in the "Columbia Encyclopedia" (sixth edition) online (accessed 8 March 2008)] In Dixie's "In the Land of Misfortune", there is a struggle between her individualism and her identification with the power of the British Empire, but for all of her sympathy with the Zulu cause and with Cetshwayo, she remained at heart an imperialist.

Women's football

Dixie played a key role is establishing the game of women's association football (soccer), organizing exhibition matches for charity, and in 1895 she became President of the British Ladies' Football Club, stipulating that "the girls should enter into the spirit of the game with heart and soul." She arranged for a women's football team from London to tour Scotland. [Richard William Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, "Encyclopedia of British Football" (London, Routledge, 2002) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=63AL641DvuUC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=%22Dixie%22&source=web&ots=p5gf5dYAlW&sig=5tH6CsLRjhY-3q1YnStwfYIsBCQ&hl=en page 325] online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 9 March 2008)]

Politics and feminism

Dixie was an enthusiastic writer of letters to newspapers on liberal and progressive issues, including support for Irish Home Rule. Her article "The Case of Ireland" was published in "Vanity Fair" on May 27, 1882. Nevertheless, she was critical of the Irish Land League and the Fenians, who in 1883 made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate her. As a result, Queen Victoria sent her servant John Brown to investigate.

Dixie held strong views on the emancipation of women, proposing that the sexes should be equal in marriage and divorce, that the Crown should be inherited by the monarch's oldest child, regardless of sex, and even that men and women should wear the same clothes. She was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and her obituary in the "Englishwoman's Review" emphasized her support for the cause of women's suffrage (i.e. the right to vote): "Lady Florence... threw herself eagerly into the Women's Movement, and spoke on public platforms."

In 1890, Dixie published a remarkable utopian novel, "Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900", which has been described as a feminist fantasy. In it, women win the right to vote, as the result of the protagonist, Gloriana, posing as a man, Hector l'Estrange, and being elected to the House of Commons. The character of l'Estrange is clearly based on that of Oscar Wilde.Heilmann, Ann, "Wilde's New Women: the New Woman on Wilde" in Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, Julie A. Hibbard, "The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years" (Rodopi, 2002) pp. 135-147, in particular p. 139] The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women. In the preface to the novel, Dixie proposes not only women's suffrage, but that the two sexes should be educated together and that all professions and positions should be open to both. In this preface, she goes farther and says:Gates, Barbara T. (ed.), "In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930" (University of Chicago Press, 2002) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QlUW4BQk2wcC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=gloriana&source=web&ots=Rlx-3u-PYy&sig=j7OZWDh6XNij98kKcepmocrHS44&hl=en#PPA62,M1 pages 61-66] online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 9 March 2008)] cquote|Nature has unmistakeably given to woman a greater brain power. This is at once perceivable in childhood... Yet man deliberately sets himself to stunt that early evidence of mental capacity, by laying down the law that woman's education shall be on a lower level than that of man's... I maintain to honourable gentlemen that this procedure is arbitrary and cruel, and false to Nature. I characterise it by the strong word of Infamous. It has been the means of sending to their graves unknown, unknelled, and unnamed, thousands of women whose high intellects have been wasted, and whose powers for good have been paralysed and undeveloped.

During the 1890s, Dixie's views on field sports changed dramatically, and in her book "The Horrors of Sport" (1891) she condemned blood sports as cruel.

Assassination attempt

The "New York Times" dated March 19, 1883, reported an attack on Lady Florence Dixie by two men disguised as women, under the heading A DASTARDLY IRISH CRIME AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LADY FLORENCE DIXIE. SHE IS WAYLAID BY TWO MEN DISGUISED IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES - HER LIFE SAVED BY A ST BERNARD DOG. ["A DASTARDLY IRISH CRIME AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LADY FLORENCE DIXIE. SHE IS WAYLAID BY TWO MEN DISGUISED IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES - HER LIFE SAVED BY A ST BERNARD DOG" in "New York Times" dated March 19, 1883, page 1]

The "New York Times" dated March 30, 1883, carried a further story headed "LADY FLORENCE DIXIE'S OWN STORY. "From the Pall Mall Gazette of March 19". ["LADY FLORENCE DIXIE'S OWN STORY. From the Pall Mall Gazette of March 19" in "New York Times" dated March 30, 1883] quote|Reports are published of an attempt to assassinate Lady Florence Dixie at her residence, the Fishery, situated near the Thames, and about two and a half miles from Windsor. Lady Florence Dixie gives the following account of the occurrence: cquote|I was out walking near the Fishery last evening, about 4:30, when two very tall women came up and asked me the time. I replied that I had not got my watch with me, and, turning, left them. Opening a small gate which led into the private grounds of Capt Brocklehurst, of the Blues, I made toward a stile, and was just going to get over, when I heard the gate open behind, and the two women followed me in. Somehow or other I felt all was not right, so I stopped and leaned against the rails, and then, as they came on, went to meet them. One on the right came forward and seized me by the neck, when by the strength of the clutch I felt it was no woman's power that pulled me down to the ground. In another second I saw the other would-be woman over me, and remember seeing the steel of the knife come right down upon me, driven by this person's hand. It struck through my clothes and against the whalebone of my stays, which turned the point, merely grazing the skin. The knife was quickly withdrawn and plunged at me again. I seized it with both hands and shouted as loud as I could, when the person who first pulled mr down pushed a large handful of earth into my mouth and nearly choked me. Just as the knife was wrenched from my hands, a very big and powerful St. Bernard dog I had with me broke through the wood, and the last thing I remember was seeing the person with the knife pulled backward by him. Then I heard a confused sound of rumbling of wheels, and I remember no more. When I came to myself I was quite alone. From what I saw of the knife I believe it to be a dagger, and the persons were undoubtedly men. They were dressed in long clothes, and were unnaturally tall for women; the one who stabbed me had on a thick veil, reaching below the mouth; the other was unveiled, but his face I did not notice much. This is all the information I can give. My head is very confused and painful, and I expect they must have stunned me. This is a wretched scrawl, but my hands are very much cut, and it pains me so much to write. quote|Lady Ripon [See [http://www.thepeerage.com/p3114.htm#i31137 Henrietta Anne Theodosia Vyner] at thepeerage.com (accessed 5 April 2008)] and Sir H. Ponsonby called yesterday with a message of sympathy from the Queen to Lady Florence.

However, the "New York Times" of April 8, 1883, carried a further report: ["GRAVE ENGLISH TOPICS LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, THE IRISH AND MR. PARNELL From the Pall Mall Gazette of March 19" in "New York Times" dated March 30, 1883] quote|LONDON, March 21 - It has been boldly suggested by the "St. James's Gazette" that Lady Florence Dixie is labouring under a mistake in regard to the dramatic occurrence which has occupied so much attention during the last 48 hours. Possibly when this reaches you its boldness will have been justified. The Tory journal does not believe that her ladyship has been attacked at all. Others share this opinion. In a week's time, the general public may share it.

Kidnap

When Dixie died in November 1905, the "New York Times" carried a report headed LADY FLORENCE DIXIE DEAD This stated that the "Author, Champion of Woman's Rights, and War Correspondent" had died on November 7th "at her home, Glen Stuart, Dumfriesshire", and included the following passage: ["LADY FLORENCE DIXIE DEAD. Author, Champion of Woman's Rights, and War Correspondent" in "New York Times" dated Wednesday, November 8, 1905, p. 9] quote|Lady Florence Dixie was a member of the Queensberry family and inherited the eccentricities as well as the cleverness possessed by so many members of it. Some years ago she startled London by declaring that she had been kidnapped she believed by Irish agitators, and had been held for some days in captivity. Her story was never disproved, but neither was it proved, and there were many people who said that the whole affair was imaginary. [Compare with the mysterious temporary disappearance of writer Agatha Christie.]

Descendants

Lady Florence Dixie's eldest son, George Douglas Dixie (18 January 1876–25 December 1948) served in the Royal Navy as a midshipman and was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1895. [LondonGazette|issue=26671|startpage=5642|date=15 October 1895|accessdate=2008-03-17] On 26 November 1914, he was promoted a temporary captain in the 5th Battalion the KOSB. [LondonGazette|issue=29111|supp=yes|startpage=2953|date=23 March 1915|accessdate=2008-03-17] He married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of Sir Alexander Jardine, 8th Baronet, and in 1924 succeeded to his father's title and was known as Sir Douglas Dixie, 12th Baronet. ["Dixie, Sir (George) Douglas, 12th Bt.", in "Who Was Who 1941–1950"(London, A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint: ISBN 0-7136-2131-1)] When he died in 1948, Sir Douglas was succeeded by his son Sir (Alexander Archibald Douglas) Wolstan Dixie, 13th and last Baronet (8 January 1910–28 December 1975). Married Dorothy Penelope (Lady Dixie) King-Kirkman in 1950 as his second wife, and they had two daughters; 1) Eleanor Barbara Lindsay; and 2) Caroline Mary Jane. Both daughters have issue.

Lady Florence Dixie's grandson Sir Wolstan Dixie wrote an autobiography called "Is it True What They Say About Dixie? The Second Battle of Bosworth" (1972). ["Dixie, Sir (Alexander Archibald Douglas) Wolstan", in "Who Was Who 1971–1980" (London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-3227-5)] The title alludes to a 1940s song by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks recorded by Al Jolson in 1948. [ [http://www.theguitarguy.com/isittrue.htm Is It True What They Say About Dixie?] online at theguitarguy.com (accessed 11 March 2008)]

Likenesses

A monochrome lithograph of Dixie by Andrew Maclure was published in 1877, a copy of which is in the National Portrait Gallery.

A more significant lithograph, by Théobald Chartran, printed in colour, appeared in "Vanity Fair" in 1884 and is one of the long series of caricatures published in the magazine between the years 1868 and 1914. These were all coloured illustrations featuring notable people of the day, and each was accompanied by a short (usually adulatory) biography. Of more than two thousand people so honoured, only eighteen were women. When Dixie was featured in the magazine on January 5, 1884, she joined this small band, which included Queen Isabella II of Spain (1869), Sarah Bernhardt (1879), the Princess of Wales (1882) and Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1883). Victoria, Princess Royal, and Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, followed later in 1884. [ [http://www.vanity-fair-prints-company.com/pages/Ladies1.html Vanity Fair Ladies] online at vanity-fair-prints-company.com (accessed 30 March 2008)]

Bibliography

The published works of Lady Florence Dixie include:

Books

*"Abel Avenged: a Dramatic Tragedy" (London, Edward Moxon, 1877)Anderson, Monica, "Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aOigGLqvALgC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=%22Dixie%22&source=web&ots=wkBcL2MKQZ&sig=QhfVzWJVdNSK8sYO467Eect5U0A&hl=en page 266] online at books.google.co.uk] (accessed 8 March 2008)]
*"Across Patagonia" (Edinburgh, Bentley, 1880)
*"Waifs and Strays: The Pilgrimage of a Bohemian Abroad" (London: Griffith, Farren Okeden and Welsh, 1880, 60 pp)
*"In the Land of Misfortune" (London: Richard Bentley, 1882, 434 pp)
*"A Defense of Zululand and Its King from the Blue Books" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882, 129 pp) [http://www.africabib.org/book/Countries_S.htm Africa Bibliography] online at africabib.org (accessed 8 March 2008)]
*"Redeemed in Blood" (London, Henry & Co., 1889)
*"Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900" (London, Henry & Co., 1890)
*"The Young Castaways, or, The Child Hunters of Patagonia" (1890), for children
*"Aniwee, or, The Warrior Queen" (1890), for children
*"Isola, or the Disinherited: A Revolt for Woman and all the Disinherited" (London, Leadenhall Press, 1902)
*"The Story of Ijain, or the Evolution of a Mind" (London, 1903)

horter works

*"The Case of Ireland" in "Vanity Fair", issue dated May 27, 1882
*"Cetshwayo and Zululand" in "Nineteenth Century" Volume 12 #2 (August, 1882) pp. 303-312
*"In the Land of Misfortune" (1882)Anderson, "op. cit." p. 119 "et seq."]
*"On Cetshwayo and his Restoration" in "Vanity Fair", July 12, 1884, pp 21-22
*"Memoirs of a Great Lone Land" in "Westminster Review", Volume 139 (March, 1893) pp. 247-256
*"The True Science of Living: The New Gospel of Health" in "Westminster Review", Volume 150 (1898) pp. 463-470
*"The Horrors of Sport" (Humanitarian League publication no. 4, 1891)
*"The Mercilessness of Sport" (1901)
*Introduction to Joseph McCabe's "Religion of Woman" (1905)

Private letters

Unpublished works include

*Florence Dixie to William Gladstone, August 11, 1882 (British Library: Gladstone Papers 391, Add. MS. 44476, f. 127)
*Florence Dixie to William Gladstone, October 23, 1883 (British Library: Gladstone Papers 391, Add. MS. 44483, f. 257)
*Florence Dixie to William Gladstone, May 21, 1890 (British Library: Gladstone Papers 425, Add. MS. 44510, f. 34)
*Florence Dixie to Mr Clodd, July 3, 1903 (University of Leeds: Brotherton Collection)
*Correspondence with Lord Kimberley (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

About her

*"Woman's Mission" in "Vanity Fair", August 16, 1884, pp 114-116
*"Woman's Mission" in "Vanity Fair", August 23, 1884, pp 134-135

References

*Adler, Michelle, "Skirting the Edges of Civilisation: British Women Travellers and Travel Writers in South Africa, 1797-1899" (Ph D dissertation, University of London, 1996)
*Adler, Michelle, "Skirting the Edges of Civilsation: Two Victorian Women Travellers and 'Colonial Spaces' in South Africa" (about Lady Florence Dixie and Sarah Heckford) in Darian-Smith, Kate, Gunner, Liz and Nuttall, Sarah (eds.) "Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia" (London & New York: Routledge, 1996) pp. 83-98
*Anderson, Monica, "Role-Play and Florence Dixie's 'In the Land of Misfortune'" in "Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006, ISBN 0838640915) pp 119-154Anderson, "op. cit." p. 119]
*Czech, Kenneth P., "With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunter" (New York, Derrydale Press, 2002, 189 pp)
*Frawley, Maria H., "A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England" (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, Newark, 1991, 334 pp)
*Frawley, Maria H., "A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England" (Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1994, 237 pp)
*Qingyun Wu, "The Discourse of Impersonation: The Destiny of the Next Life and Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900", paper presented to the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 16-18, 1988
*Roberts, Brian, "Ladies in the Veld", especially chapter entitled "The Lady and the King: Lady Florence Dixie" (London: John Murray, 1965) pp. 75-181
*Stevenson, Catherine B., "The Depiction of the Zulu in the Travel Writing of Florence Dixie", paper presented at the 1980 African Studies Association Conference, October 15-18, 1980, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (New Brunswick, New Jersey: ASA, Rutgers University, 1980)
*Stevenson, Catherine B., "Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa" (Boston: Twayne, 1982, 184 pp.)
*Stevenson, Catherine B., "Female Anger and African Politics: The Case of Two Victorian Lady Travellers" in "Turn of the Century Women" Volume 2, 1985, pp 7-17
*Tinling, Marion, "Lady Florence Dixie, 1855-1905" in "Women Into the Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers" (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989)

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