Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953) was an Irish writer and world traveler. An avid cyclist who set a record for cycling 338 kilometers in a 24-hour marathon, she began her writing career as a sports journalist for Irish Cyclist magazine. In 1903, she was hired by Daily Graphic to report on the Pacific and wrote travelogues for shipping companies to promote the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, and Tonga. The Australian government commissioned her to write a pamphlet to promote New Guinea to settlers. While popular at its time, modern academic scholars regard her writing as full of paternalistic and racist overtones about life in the tropics.
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- Mothers of Horror (2025)
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