Author: Carl Thompson

Mary Orr, Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History (London: Anthem Press, 2024) 294 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1083998-609-3 The last two decades have seen an almost exponential advance in our knowledge and understanding of women’s many contributions to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European science. Building on groundbreaking works in the 1990s by…