Author: Margaret Olszewski

George, Samantha, Botany, Sexuality and Women’s Writing

Jan 7, 2009

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Margaret Olszewski

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian

Samantha George, Botany, Sexuality and Women’s Writing, 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007). 288 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978-0719076978. Sam George’s Botany, Sexuality and Women’s Writing 1760-1830 picks up where the work of science and gender pioneers like Barbara T. Gates, Anne Shteir and Londa Schiebinger left off; but rather…