In "Kindred Nature, " Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature. Recovering their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition, Gates discusses not just well-known women like Beatrix Potter but also others scientists, writers, gardeners, and illustrators who are little known today. Some of these women discovered previously unknown species, others wrote and illustrated natural histories or animal stories, and still others educated women, the working classes, and...
In "Kindred Nature, " Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature. ...
From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as...
From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some like the beloved children's ...
