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Mary French Sheldon

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Mary French Sheldon

1847-1936

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Writer, teacher, explorer

Her travel

Fun fact

Her story

Her works

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She's married to a banker, Eli Sheldon. Together they moved to London where Mary opened a publishing house. Before her trip she was translating texts from french author Flaubert.

During her trip to Kilimandjaro in 1891, she wanted to show that a woman could be an explorer and command an expedition just as well as a man.

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At first, she wanted to travel exclusively with women but she only found only one that was willing to travel with her, so she had to recruit men to cary her luggage. During her trip, men tried to take over the command, but she pulled out a gun and fired on a vulture to scare the men who tried to take over the expedition.

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Following her travels, Mary wrote some books to tell her story and the difficulties she encountered.

She also did conferences which earned her many awards, such as her presentation at the World's Columbian Exposition, and she was one of the first woman to be apart of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Fun Fact !

She was transported on a "Palanquin". Men carried her in a small portable wooden room

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