Carl Linnaeus

The origin of the title has not been established: it may have come from Sir Walter Scott 's Peveril of the Peak, or from any one of the several place-names in which this element...

Apparently finding an adult instead of a juvenile readership something of a liberation, she designed this book specifically as an introduction to the English translation of The System of Vegetables by Linnaeus , published in...

The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond , of Horace Walpole

During the 1790s and the early nineteenth century, MEJ published three works about Linnean botany and plant physiology (the first of them designed expressly for the instruction of children) and one about gardening.

The story focuses on three women: Toby (who loses her loving, low-ranking parents to the system, survives sexual violence, and becomes a not wholly believing member of a sect of ecologists or nature-worshippers calling themselves...

Here the first-person male narrator, a tiny dwarf-like man named Phineas Gilbert Nanson, on impulse abandons his work towards a PhD in English (Byatt skewers a gallery of predictably eccentric and pretentious academics), rejecting poststructural...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir thinks AS may be the author of The Backwardness of the Spring Accounted For, a poem written into a copy of Linnaeus 's A System of Vegetables, 1783...

The letters are those of two sisters in their teens: Constance, who is away from home for the summer, and Felicia. Both are serious students of botany, and of the Linnean taxonomy, and Felicia has...

Her book, designed for the use of schools, has a prefatory Analysis elaborately summarising the contents of each dialogue. Its form follows the popular pattern of instruction by a mother, here Hortensia, of her...