The forgotten botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon's life of science and art /

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"The Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Lemmon, a little-known and under-appreciated woman of both science and art, who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Lemmon, and in addition, her gift for drawing in the field, combined with her thirst for scientific know...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Wynne L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Temas:
Lemmon, Sara Allen Plummer, > 1836-1923.
Women botanists > United States > Biography.
Botanical illustration.
Illustration botanique.
Femmes botanistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Botanical illustration
Women botanists
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: New York Harbor, December 1869
  • "Now I am at the jumping off place": San Francisco, 1870
  • "Perhaps you've heard our Sadie was killed": Santa Barbara, 1870
  • "It is like death to me to be idle": Santa Barbara, 1871-76
  • "A great botanist from the Sierras": Michigan, the Civil War, and Northern California, 1832-76
  • "My dear, soul-knit brother": Santa Barbara and Sierra Valley, 1876-77
  • "Into the matrimonial vortex!": Santa Barbara and Oakland, 1877-80
  • "Try to touch the heart of Santa Catalina": Southern Arizona, spring 1881
  • "An extreme outpost of civilized life": Southern Arizona, fall 1881
  • "Eleven days of dungeon life": Southern Arizona, fall 1881
  • "Happy in our work & in each other": Oakland, 1881-82
  • "Rushing, reckless life of a true mining town": Southern Arizona, summer 1882
  • "A botanical paradise": Southern Arizona, summer-fall 1882
  • "Considered by less ambitious a fine season's work": Oakland and Southern Arizona, 1882-83
  • "Lives cast in pleasant places": Northern Arizona and New Mexico, 1884
  • "Grandest display the world has ever known": New Orleans and New England, 1884-85
  • "Our Hillock in Cholame": Near San Luis Obispo, California, 1885-87
  • "Life, to me, seems sweeter each year": Oakland and Mexico, 1887-88
  • "The narrowest escape from instant death": Oakland, 1888-91
  • "Sell everything and move to California!": Oakland and Chicago, 1891-93 - A sweet, sacred togetherness": Oakland and Mexico, 1894-98
  • "Wish we were out in the wild woods": Oakland and Arizona, 1899-1903
  • "Safe--tho' tremendously shaken": Arizona and Oakland, 1903-6
  • "I feel so helpless and alone": Oakland, 1906-12
  • "Partners in botany": Oakland, 1908-23.

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