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Death And Disease: Medical Issues In The Life And Writing Of Mary Shelley, Janae B. Haas
Death And Disease: Medical Issues In The Life And Writing Of Mary Shelley, Janae B. Haas
JaNae B. Haas
This presentation explores the general medical context from roughly 1750 to 1850 in Britain and to focus on Mary Shelley’s personal experience with health, healing, and death during her 53 year life from 1797-1851.
“Behind Folding Shutters In Whittingehame House”: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) And Amateur Natural History, Donald L. Opitz Phd
“Behind Folding Shutters In Whittingehame House”: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) And Amateur Natural History, Donald L. Opitz Phd
Donald L. Opitz
During the rise of professional biology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, individual naturalists continued to develop private collections by modest means and often within their own homes. Despite the increasing opportunities for women to participate in the sciences, the number of women entomologists remained relatively few. The amateur entomological career of Alice Blanche Balfour, the younger sister of Arthur James Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, reveals how a confluence of personal and social factors shaped a gentlewoman's capacity to pursue her interests in natural history. This paper revises earlier images of Alice Balfour by presenting her as …