View the catalog record for Burges's Flora of the British Isles: QL555.G7 B87 1810a+
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9611259
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Mary Anne Burges (of Devon, England) is perhaps best known as the author of The progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, a sequel of sorts to The Pilgrim's progress, published anonymously in 1800. She was a multi-talented, well-educated woman, accomplished in foreign languages, music, art, geology, botany, and entomology. With uncommon scientific rigor--especially for a woman of her time--she studied, documented, and illustrated the lepidoptera of the British Isles.
Exhibition History:
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
Subject Terms:
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813. | Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778. Systema naturae. | Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941. | Head, Frederick William, 1854–1886. | Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762–1850. | Butterflies -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Caterpillars -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Moths -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Lepidoptera -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Entomology -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Lepidoptera in literature. | Zaehnsdorf (Firm) -- Bookbinder. | Women in natural history.