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Blair Niles (née Mary Blair Rice, 1880–1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers . Early life and expeditions. Born Mary Blair Rice, Blair was born on The Oaks, her parents' plantation in Staunton, Virginia. [1] .
Blair Niles was an American travel writer and novelist. She explored many countries and wrote about her expeditions. She was a founding member, and the first secretary of the Society of Woman Geographers. Niles was also the first woman to visit Devil’s Island penal colony in French Guiana.
Four exceptional women founded SWG in 1925: Marguerite Harrison, Blair Niles, Gertrude Shelby, and Gertrude Emerson Sen. These recognized explorers wanted to bring together women who shared ambitions and interests in exploration and achievement, exchange knowledge derived from field work, and encourage women pursuing geographical exploration ...
Apr 8, 2021 · They’d traveled hundreds and thousands of miles between them, but explorer Blair Niles and one-time spy Marguerite Harrison were disappointed to learn that they were deemed unsuitable to join...
American travel writer and novelist. Name variations: Blair Rice Niles. Born Mary Blair Rice in 1880 in Coles Ferry, Virginia; died in 1959; daughter of Henry Crenshaw Rice and Gordon (Pryor) Rice; educated at home and at a school in Massachusetts; married William Beebe (a naturalist, later divorced); married Robert Niles, Jr. (an architect).
A noted explorer, travel writer, ethnographer, and popular novelist who, though heterosexual, wrote sympathetically about gay life, Niles was born Mary Blair Rice in 1880 in Coles Ferry, Virginia.
Blair Niles (1880-1959), as she is best known, was formerly Mary Blair Rice, the first wife of naturalist and oceanographer Charles Beebe. The Beebes visited Mexico (and Lake Chapala) over the winter of 1903-1904.
