Includes bibliographical references (257-272) and index.
Contents:
Caterpillars in the garden: teaching natural history in women's periodicals -- From native blooms to monster plants: women's botanical textbooks and the lives of plants -- Pedagogies and possibilities: Maria Edgeworth's scientific education for women -- Sketching vegetality: Blackwell, Moriarty, and illustrated botanical texts -- Collecting and creating: Mary Delany's naturalist career.
Summary:
"This book examines the subversive ways in which women made their mark on the scientific landscape of eighteenth-century England. By taking advantage of intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists of this study laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.
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