The forgotten botanist : Sara Plummer Lemmon's life of science and art / Wynne Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Wynne L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women botanists--United States--Biography.

Women botanists.

Botanical illustration.

Lemmon, Sara Allen Plummer, 1836-1923.

Lemmon, Sara Allen Plummer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

Summary:

The Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a little-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Prologue

1. "Now I Am at the Jumping Off Place"

2. "Perhaps You've Heard Our Sadie Was Killed"

3. "It Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle"

4. "A Great Botanist from the Sierras"

5. "My Dear, Soul-Knit Brother"

6. "Into the Matrimonial Vortex!"

7. "Try to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina"

8. "An Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life"

9. "Eleven Days of Dungeon Life"

10. "Happy in Our Work &amp

in Each Other"

11. "Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town"

12. "A Botanical Paradise"

13. "Considered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season's Work"

14. "Lives Cast in Pleasant Places"

15. "Grandest Display the World Has Ever Known"

16. "Our Hillock in Cholame"

17. "Life, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year"

18. "The Narrowest Escape from Instant Death"

19. "Sell Everything and Move to California!"

20. "A Sweet, Sacred Togetherness"

21. "Wish We Were Out in the Wild Woods"

22. "Safe-Tho' Tremendously Shaken"

23. "I Feel So Helpless and Alone"

24. "Partners in Botany"

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-2947-9

OCLC:

1267760977