Name Emily Kemp Role Writer | Died 1939 | |
Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860–1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer. She was awarded the Grande Médaille de Vermeil by the French Geographical Society for her 1921 work Chinese Mettle.
Biography
Kemp was a Baptist from a wealthy industrialist family, and one of the first students at Somerville College, Oxford. She continued her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art.
She travelled in China, Korea, India, central Asia and the Amazon, sketching, painting and writing, with a focus on the education and welfare of women, and their role in religion.
Kemp was friendly with the theologian Marcus Dods, the explorer Francis Younghusband and Albert Schweitzer. She donated the chapel at Somerville College as a "house of prayer for all people" (that is, of all religions).