Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World
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In Kindred Nature Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study protection and writing of nature. Recovering their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition Gates discusses not just well-known women like Beatrix Potter but also othersscientists writers gardeners and illustratorswho are little known today. Some of these women discovered previously unknown species others wrote and illustrated natural histories or animal stories and still others educated women the working classes and children about recent scientific advances. A number of women also played pivotal roles in the defense of animal rights by protesting overhunting vivisection and habitat destruction even as they demanded their own rights to vote work and enter universities. Kindred Nature shows the enormous impact Victorian and Edwardian women had on the natural sciences and the environmental movement and on our own attitudes toward nature and human nature.
