Anne Pratt (1806–1893)
Autor de The Excellent Woman: As Described in the Book of Proverbs
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Anne Pratt
The ferns of Great Britain, and their allies; the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails. 2 copias
WILD FLOWERS: VOLUME II. 2 copias
Our Native Songsters 1 copia
Wild Flowers of the Year 1 copia
The British grasses and sedges 1 copia
Sand and Water Play 1 copia
Wild Flowers Vol II 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1806
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1893
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Chatham, Kent, England, UK
Rochester, Kent, England, UK
London, England, UK
Dover, Kent, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- botanist
ornithologist
illustrator
author
naturalist - Biografía breve
- Anne Pratt was a daughter of Robert Pratt, a wholesale grocer from Kent, and his wife Sara Bundock. Poor health and a bad knee in childhood kept her indoors, and she became a voracious reader. She was encouraged to occupy herself by drawing. Dr. Dods, a family friend, offered to teach her botany, a subject she took up with great enthusiasm. In her early thirties, she secretly wrote her first book, and sent it off to a publisher -- it was published in 1838 as The Field, The Garden, and the Woodland. It was the first of some 20 botany and bird books that she wrote and illustrated, including Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain (1855). She collaborated with William Dickes, an engraver skilled in the chromolithograph process. Her works continue to be valued by botanists today. In 1866, she married John Pearless, and moved with him to Redhill in Surrey and stopped publishing.
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- Obras
- 34
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 62
- Popularidad
- #271,094
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 6