Mar 12, 2024
Palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847) was known around the world for her Jurassic discoveries in the fossil beds at Lyme Regis. Her findings changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life yet she was not able to join the Geological Society of London. In her lifetime, her extraordinary finds were rarely published or credited to her, and she was paid little money for them. This portrait of Mary Anne her dog Tray, by Benjamin Donne, a neighbour, is a copy of an 1842 painting.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
