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corresponded with members of the London scientific intelligentsia: Sir James Edward Smith
, first President of the Linnean Society
(who encouraged Charlotte Smith
to introduce botanical information into her novels, but proved singularly unhelpful...
Literary responses
Anna Miller
Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Horace Walpole
wrote: The poor Arcadian patroness does not spell one word of French or Italian...
Timeline
30 April 1829: John Lindley gave his inaugural lecture as...
Building item
30 April 1829
John Lindley
gave his inaugural lecture as the first professor of botany at the newly established London University
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Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
