1st Edition
Revealing New Worlds Three Victorian Women Naturalists
By Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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The story of nineteenth-century science often tells a tale of a masculinized professionalizing domain. Scientific man increasingly pushed women out, marginalized them and constructed them as naturally feminine creatures incapable of intellectual work, particularly scientific work. Yet many women participated in various scientific endeavours throughout the century. This work asks why, when the... Read more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Section I - Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) Chapter 1. For the Love of Seaweeds: 'Mrs Alfred Gatty' and Woman's Place in Science Chapter 2. 'Monarch of All She Surveys': Margaret Gatty's Career as a Naturalist. Section II - Marianne North (1830-1873) Chapter 3. Finding a New Life: Mariane North as Daughter, Patron and Traveller Chapter 4. Painting Outside the Lines: Mariane North's Botanical Art. Section III - Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828-1901) Chapter 5. 'A Lady Entomologist': Eleanor Anne Ormerod and the Politics of Gender in Science Chapter 6. 'Not Wholly Separate': Eleanor Anne Ormerod as Popularizer and Professional Entomologist Chapter 7. Re-Imaging Victorian Women Naturalists Conclusion^lBibliography
Biography
Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
'Suzanne Le-May Sheffield has done a fine job of recreating the diverse circumstances of these three remarkable women, overturning the assumption that Victorian women were helpless in the face of the roles that men had in mind for them, without ever denying that they were oppressed' - A Passion for Seaweed, Jim Endersby
