The Extraordinary Life of Marianne North
Marianne North was an early female explorer, naturalist and painter. Her life, as she described it, was one of “wander…
Author: Rosalind White
I am a first-year PhD student at Royal Holloway looking at gender & emotions in the science & literature of the nineteenth-century. My research looks at how natural history in many ways dwelt within the feminine sphere of Victorian culture. And charts a more intimate, personal exploration of natural history that examines the lives of its practitioners beyond the impact of conventional watersheds.
Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity
~ Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which attempted to categorise and tell…