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=== Frances Theodora Parsons === | === Frances Theodora Parsons === | ||
After the death of her husband, Frances Theodora Parsons embraced Victorian customs for widows, including the adoption of his name.<ref name="Anderson"> Anderson, Lorraine. Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature. Vintage Books, 2003.</ref> She also assumed a solitary lifestyle until her friend Marion Satterlee got her to resume taking walks in the countryside. <ref name="Anderson"> She then rediscovered the love for botany that she developed while spending her childhood summers away from New York City in Newburgh, New York. <ref name="Anderson"> Together, the women collected the material for this hugely successful book.<ref name="Anderson"> Parsons later went on to write a column about nature for the New York Tribune (compiled in ''According to Season'' (1894)), as well as the successive guide ''How to Know the Ferns'' (1899), and a children’s handbook called ''Plants and Their Children'' (1896). She gave up naturalist writing when she became very active in the suffrage movement, though she did also publish a memoir entitled ''Perchance Some Day'' (1951) just before her death. <ref name="Anderson"> | After the death of her husband, Frances Theodora Parsons embraced Victorian customs for widows, including the adoption of his name.<ref name="Anderson"> Anderson, Lorraine. Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature. Vintage Books, 2003.</ref> She also assumed a solitary lifestyle until her friend Marion Satterlee got her to resume taking walks in the countryside. <ref name="Anderson/"> She then rediscovered the love for botany that she developed while spending her childhood summers away from New York City in Newburgh, New York. <ref name="Anderson/"> Together, the women collected the material for this hugely successful book.<ref name="Anderson/"> Parsons later went on to write a column about nature for the New York Tribune (compiled in ''According to Season'' (1894)), as well as the successive guide ''How to Know the Ferns'' (1899), and a children’s handbook called ''Plants and Their Children'' (1896). She gave up naturalist writing when she became very active in the suffrage movement, though she did also publish a memoir entitled ''Perchance Some Day'' (1951) just before her death. <ref name="Anderson"/> | ||
=== 19th-Century Women's Botanical Writings === | === 19th-Century Women's Botanical Writings === | ||
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Introduction
Historical Context
Frances Theodora Parsons
After the death of her husband, Frances Theodora Parsons embraced Victorian customs for widows, including the adoption of his name.[1] She also assumed a solitary lifestyle until her friend Marion Satterlee got her to resume taking walks in the countryside. <ref name="Anderson/"> She then rediscovered the love for botany that she developed while spending her childhood summers away from New York City in Newburgh, New York. <ref name="Anderson/"> Together, the women collected the material for this hugely successful book.<ref name="Anderson/"> Parsons later went on to write a column about nature for the New York Tribune (compiled in According to Season (1894)), as well as the successive guide How to Know the Ferns (1899), and a children’s handbook called Plants and Their Children (1896). She gave up naturalist writing when she became very active in the suffrage movement, though she did also publish a memoir entitled Perchance Some Day (1951) just before her death. [1]