Mary Anning (58) (Little People, BIG DREAMS)

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That woman, of course, is Charlotte Murchison, who many believe greatly influenced her husband’s research. It was Murchison who studied mineralogy and encouraged her husband, who was an army officer and then a fox hunter, to pursue scientific endeavors. Kölbl-Ebert wrote that Murchison later said: “It was during the years 1818-22 … that my wife was always striving to interest me in something more intellectual than the case, and began to teach herself mineralogy and conchology.” Addley, E. (16 December 2019). "Hopes rise for statue of pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 October 2020. Anholt, Laurence (2006), Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning, Frances Lincoln Publishers, ISBN 978-1-84507-700-6 Sutcliffe, J. C. (26 March 2010). "Review: Curiosity, by Joan Thomas". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022 . Retrieved 31 August 2022. Mary made many other exciting discoveries, such as a flying reptile, later named the Pterodactyl, and coprolites – fossilised poo – which helped her work out what dinosaurs ate! Having taught herself geology, anatomy and scientific illustration, Mary was so highly skilled that she took important scientists fossil hunting and discussed ideas and theories with them.

They were getting some fresh air when, suddenly, the sky got dark and a storm cloud came rolling across the sky. Men of science would visit, listen to my ideas, look at my finds, but most of their books never mentioned me. Carus, C.G. (1846), The King of Saxony's journey through England and Scotland in the year 1844, Chapman and Hall Lee, Benjamin (25 August 2020). "Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan fall in love in first Ammonite trailer". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 August 2020. Vincent, P.; Benson, R. B. J. (2012). " Anningasaura, a basal plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of Lyme Regis, United Kingdom". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 1049. Bibcode: 2012JVPal..32.1049V. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.686467. S2CID 86547069.but this time it was as if I could see beneath the surface, and I just knew that this was something really big.

When Mary and her brother uncovered an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near Lyme Regis, she shook the scientific world and posed a challenge to religion. The creature was named an "ichthyosaur," ("fish-lizard") and it was a creature that had been totally unknown to science and, apparently, no longer existing on Earth. But if the creature had been created by God, why had God caused or permitted it to go extinct? That was a question that could not be satisfactorily answered, as it implied that God had made a mistake. And how could God make a mistake? Before writing, was a reference book editor, working on encyclopedias about writers. (Yup, still nerdy.) Learned how to research and how to make sentences better. Eventually I wanted to fix my own sentences rather than others’, so I quit and did the MA. Remarkable Creatures doesn't have the same sure hand or intricately drawn world as Girl with a Pearl Earring, but Chevalier's own curiosity in her subject can not be doubted as you can see in this Tracy Chevalier ">BBC slide show narrated by Tracy Chevalier and this Barnes and Noble Studio beach walk interview with on Tracy Chevalier (Thanks, Eric, for sending me this link, wonderful interview). But for me the most intriguing aspect of the story, which was set primarily in Lymes Regis, England in the first quarter of the 19th century, was the capturing of that moment in time when there is a shift in the questions that scientists and other intellectuals are asking. Are these fossils animals that are no longer living? If so, why, and does that mean that God, their creator, is not perfect? Do the fossils that are being discovered mean that the earth is much older than currently thought? You get to experience these transformative thoughts that frighten people and eventually change the world in which we live. Torrens, Hugh (2008). "Anning, Mary (1799–1847)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online Edition. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/568. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)Remarkable Creatures is a beautifully written book about two remarkable women, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot. A fictional account based on real-life characters and events, Remarkable Creatures is set in the early 1800’s in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, England. Poor, uneducated Mary Anning and middle-class, London-bred Elizabeth Philpot form what is considered an unconventional friendship, due to their differing social classes, based on their love of fossils and fossil hunting. Despite my extremely limited knowledge in the fields of geology and paleontology, I found this book fascinating. Not a bad feat for a woman who was a contemporary of Jane Austen's at a time when women were not allowed to contribute to scientific journals or indeed even enter the clubs and societies that were available for the scientifically minded.