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Animals & Insects
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Priscilla Wakefield, 1751-1832. An introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects, in a Series of Familiar Letters. With Illustrated Engravings. London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816.
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Amanda Bartlett Harris, 1824-1917. How We Went Birds'-Nesting: Field, Wood and Meadow Rambles. Illustrations by G. F. Barnes. Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1880.
Frontispiece from Harris book Title page from Harris book
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Lucy Ellen Guernsey, 1826-1899. Jenny and the Birds. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1860.
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Miss S. Waring. The Minstrelsy of the Woods; or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign Birds. London: Harvey and Darton, 1832.
Title page from Waring book Plate facing page 156 - Waring's book
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Mrs. A. M. Diaz and Norman A. Calkins. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. [vol. 1: Birds of Prey; vol. 2: Wading Birds; vol. 3: Scratching Birds; vol. 4: Swimming Birds] Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878.
Cover of Prang's Natural History, Vol. 1 Illustrated plate of Mallard Duck, Prang's Natural History, Vol. 1 Cover of Prang's Natural History, Vol. 2 Illustrated plate of Great Blue Heron, Prang's Natural History, Vol. 2
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Olive Thorne [Harriet Miller], 1831-1918. Little Folks in Feathers and Furs, and Others in Neither. Hartford, Conn.: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1875.
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A Lady. A visit to Nahant, Being a Sequel to the Wonders of the Deep. New York: Lewis Colby, & Co., 1847.
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Astronomy
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Catharine Sedgwick, 1789-1867. Arcturus; or, The Bright Star in Bootes. An Easy Guide to Science. Second edition. London: William Macintosh, 1867.
Frontispiece of Sedgwick book
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Lizzie W. Champney, 1850-1922. In the Sky Garden. Illustrated by J. Wells Champney. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, and Company, 1877.
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Mrs. Mary Somerville, 1780-1872. A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.
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The Ladies Diary: or, the Woman's Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1723. Containing Many Delightful and Entertaining Particulars Peculiarly Adapted for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex. London: Company of Stationers, 1723.
Title page of The Ladies Diary
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Elizabeth Blackwell, 1700?-1758. Herbarium Blackwellianum Emendatum et Actum. Nuremberg: J.J. Fleischmann and C. de Launoy, 1750-73.
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Education
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Jane H. Marcet, 1769-1858. Conversations on Chemistry. In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.
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Arabella B. Buckley, 1840-1929. The Fairy-Land of Science. London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Illustrated by Mr. J. Cooper.
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Arabella B. Buckley, 1840-1929. Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Illustrations by Dr. Wild and Mr. Edwin Wilson.
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Elizabeth Fitton. Conversations on Botany. 5th edition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
Pages 58 and 59 of Fitton book
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Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, 1793-1884. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical Elementary and Physiological; with an Appendix, Containing Descriptions of the Plants of the United States and Exotics, &c. for the Use of Seminarys and Private Students. 5th edition, revised and enlarged. Hartford: F. J. Huntington, 1836.
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Floral Sentiment
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Elizabeth Washington Wirt, 1784-1857. Flora's Dictionary. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1829.
Page 118 of Wirt book Plate facing page 118 of Wirt book
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Sarah Josepha Hale, 1788-1879. Flora's Interpreter, and Fortuna Flora. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1850.
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Sarah Josepha Hale, 1788-1879. Flora's Interpreter: or, the American Book of Flowers and Sentiments. Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1832.
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Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887. The Garland of Flora. Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co. and Carter and Hendee, 1829.
Preface of Dix book Page 43 of Dix book
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Frances S. Osgood, 1811-1850. The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry to Which Are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary. New York: J. C. Riker, 1844.
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Frances S. Osgood, 1811-1850. The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry to Which Are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858.
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Eliza Eve Gleadall. The Beauties of Flora with Botanic and Poetic Illustrations: Being a Selection of Flowers Drawn from Nature Arranged Emblematically with Directions for Colouring Them. Published by Eliza Eve Gleadall at Heath Hall near Wakefield, 1834.
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Anna Peyre Dinnies, 1805-1886. The Floral Year, Embellished with Bouquets of Flowers, Drawn and Colored from Nature. Each Flower Illustrated with a Poem. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1847.
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Gardens
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Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894. An Island Garden. Pictures and illustrations by Childe Hassam. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894.
Cover from Thaxter book Title page from Thaxter book
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Candace Wheeler, 1827-1923. Content in a Garden. Decorations by Dora Wheeler Keith. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1902.
Title page to Wheeler book Page 30 of Wheeler book
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Elizabeth Kent. Flora Domestica, or The Portable Flower-Garden; with Directions for the Treatment of Plants in Pots; and Illustrations from the Works of the Poets. Vol. 1 and 2. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924. In the Garden. Boston and New York: The Medici Society of America, 1925.
Cover from Burnett book
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Eliza Brightwen, 1830-1906. Inmates of My House and Garden. Illustrated by Theo. Carreras. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895.
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Illustrators & Colorists
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Mrs. Thomas John Hussey. Illustrations of British Mycology, Containing Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of Interest and Novelty Indigenous to Britain. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1847.
Plate 10 from Hussey book Text to plate 10 from Hussey book
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Henrietta Maria Moriarty. Viridarium: Coloured Plates of Greenhouse Plants, with the Linnean Names, and with Concise Rules for Their Culture. London: Dewick & Clarke, 1806.
Plate 42 from Moriarty book Page 42 from Moriarty book
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Elizabeth Twining, 1805-1889. Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants. v.1 London: Joseph Cundall, 1849.
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Mrs. Edward Roscoe [Margaret Lace Roscoe]. Floral Illustrations of the Seasons. London: R. Havell, Junr., 1838.
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Miss Smith. Studies of Flowers from Nature. Dedicated by Permission to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth. Adwick Hall near Doncaster: Printed for & Sold by Miss Smith, 18--?.
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Mrs. Meredith [Louisa Anne Twamely]. Bush Friends in Tasmania. London and New York: MacMillian & Co., 1891.
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Mrs. Loudon. British Wild Flowers. London: William Smith, 1847.
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Mrs. Loudon. The Ladies' Flower-Garden. London: William S. Orr and Co., n.d.
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Maria Sibylla Merian
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Maria Sibylla Merian. Der Raupen Wunderbare Verwandelung und Sonderbare Blumen-Nahrung. [The Miraculous Transformation and Unusual Flower-Food of Caterpillars] Nuremberg: Johann Andreas Graffen. Frankfurt and Leipzig: David Funken and Andreas Knortzen, 1679-1683.
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Music
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I Wander'd in the Woodland. Words by Mrs. Frances S. Osgood, music by Herrman S. Saroni. New York: Wm. Hall & Son, 1849.
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Lilies Clustered Fair and Tall. Words by Celia Thaxter, music by Henshaw Dana. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1882.
Front cover of music score Lillies Clustered Fair and Tall - words by Thaxter
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The Wild Rose. Words by Celia Thaxter, music by Julius Eichberg. New York: C. H. Ditson & Co., 1878.
Front cover of music score The Wild Rose - words by Thaxter
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Nature Writers
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Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830-1885. The Procession of Flowers in Colorado. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897.
Cover from Jackson book
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Mabel Loomis Todd, 1856-1932. A Cycle of Sunsets. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1910.
Title page from Todd book Page 207 from Todd book
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Susan Fennimore Cooper, 1813-1894. Rural Hours. Illustrated edition. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851.
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Lida Clarkson. Indian Summer: Autumn Poems and Sketches. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1883.
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Frances Theodora Parsons, 1861-1952. According to Season: Talks about the Flowers in the Order of Their Appearance in the Woods and Fields. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 32 color plates by Elsie Louise Shaw.
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Mary Austin, 1868-1934. The Land of Little Rain. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.
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Practical Instruction
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A Book of Fruits & Flowers. Shewing the Nature and Use of them, either for Meat or Medicine. London: M. S. for Tho. Jenner, 1656.
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William Lawson, fl. 1618. The Country Housewifes Garden. London: Roger Jackson, 1623.
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Lizzie E. Cotton. Bee Keeping for Profit: A New System of Bee Management. Second Edition. West Gorham, ME: 1883.
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Antonette Matteson, b. 1847. The Occult Family Physician, and Botanic Guide to Health. Buffalo, NY: published by the author, 1894.
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George Brookshaw, 1751-1823. A New Treatise on Flower Painting, or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
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Mary Griffith. Our Neighbourhood, or Letters on Horticulture and natural Phenomena: interspersed with opinions on domestic and moral economy. New York: E. Bliss, 1831.
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Religion
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Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809-1873. Parables from Nature. Second Series. Illustrated by Paul De Lonpre. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.
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Hannah Zeller of Nazareth. Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1875.
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Harriet Newell Cook. The Scripture Alphabet of Animals. New York: American Tract Society, 1842.
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Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, 1785-1842. A Scripture Herbal. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842.
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Mrs. Hey. The Moral of Flowers. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833.
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Travelers
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Abby Jane Morrell, b. 1809. Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.
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Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, 1863-1955. My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos. New York and Philadelphia: The Contemporary Publishing Company, 1894.
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Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, 1785-1842. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence There, During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
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Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, 1785-1842. Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year1822. and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842.
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Working Women
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The section Working Women consists, at the moment, solely of citations and captions. Images are to be added at a later time.

 
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Authors' Biographies
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