Flora's fieldworkers : women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada / Ann Shteir and Suzanne Zeller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shteir, Ann B., 1941- author.

Zeller, Suzanne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botanists--Canada--Biography.

Botanists.

Botanists--Canada--History--19th century.

Botany--Canada--History--19th century.

Botany.

Women botanists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in mid- and late-century Ontario and Australia.

Contents:

Cover

Flora's Fieldworkers

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Women and Plant Practices in Nineteenth-Century Canada beyond "the Usual Records"

PART ONE Approaching Lady Dalhousie: New Resources, New Perspectives

1 A Botanical Journey of Discovery: Lady Dalhousie in British North America

2 Lady Dalhousie's Orchids and Other Rare Plants in Lower Canada, 1820-1828: Resources for Historical Study

3 Gender, Botany, and Imperial Networks: Reflections on a Letter

PART TWO Collecting and Its Contexts

4 "I dare not say Botanical … Mine is a real love for flowers": Mary Brenton in 1830s Newfoundland

5 Baron Ferdinand von Mueller's Plant Collectors: At Home with the Australian Flora

6 Alice Hollingworth, Early Botanical Explorer in Muskoka District, Ontario

PART THREE Natural History "Old" and "New"

7 Catharine Parr Traill: A Natural Historian in Changing Times

8 "Botany … a Prominent Study": Isabella McIntosh's Ferns and Natural History in 1860s Montreal

PART FOUR Seeing and Making

9 Botanical Albums as Theoretical Objects: Sophie Pemberton and the Logic of Identity

10 Slips and Seeds: Botany and Horticulture in Two Nineteenth-Century Canadian Quilts

PART FIVE Expanding Public Practices

11 Botanical Gardens in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Individuals and Institutions

12 Women, Citizen Science, and Botanical Knowledge in Ontario, 1870-1920

Afterword: Finding Meaning in the Understory

Tables and Figures

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Shteir, Ann Flora's Fieldworkers

ISBN:

0-2280-1346-1

OCLC:

1289856306