Most of all, I would like to thank three people: Hugh Torrens, who knows more about Mary Anning than anyone and has been very cordial to me. Jo Draper, who is a saint, opening up the files at the Philpot Museum and sending me bits and pieces of information about everything, and who wears her erudition lightly and with great humour. Finally, Paddy Howe, fossil hunter extraordinaire, who gave me many fossils and took me to the beach between Lyme and Charmouth to find more, teaching me with patience, intelligence, and grace.
Further Reading
Deborah
Cadbury,
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World, 2000 (UK); as Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science, 2001 (US) William Conybeare and Henry De La Beche, papers on the ichthyosaur and plesiosaur for the Geological Society, 1821, 1822, 1824, reprinted in The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906, edited by David B. Weishampel and Nadine M. White, 2004
Jo
Draper,
Mary Anning's Town: Lyme Regis, 2004
John
Fowles,
A Short History of Lyme Regis, 1991
Charles
C.
Gillispie,
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850, 1951
S.R. Howe, T. Sharpe and H.S. Torrens, Ichthyosaurs: A History of Fossil "Sea-Dragons" , 1981
W.D. Lang, various papers on Mary Anning in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1936-1963
Christopher
McGowan,
The Dragon Seekers: The Discovery of Dinosaurs During the Prelude to Darwin, 2001
Judith Pascoe, chapter on Mary Anning in The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors, 2005
Patricia
Pierce,
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters, 2006
George
Roberts,
Roberts' History of Lyme Regis and Charmouth, 1834
Martin
J.S.
Rudwick,
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of
Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, 2005; and Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, 2008
Philippe Taquet, "Quand les Reptiles marins anglais traversaient la Manche: Mary Anning et Georges Cuvier, deux acteurs de la decouverte et de l'etude des Ichthyosaures et des Plesiosaures," in Annales de Paleontologie 89 (2003): 37-64
Crispin
Tickell,
Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, 1996
Hugh Torrens, "Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme; 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew'," in British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1995): 257-84
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