What is it about?
The paper identifies an important but anonymous article about the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning. One author turns out to be Frank Buckland, a noted natural history writer, who also used material from his father William Buckland, a seminal geologist of this area. The other author is George Roberts, lcoal schoolmaster and historian.
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Why is it important?
These authors can be regarded as knowing Mary Anning and her background well and their identification considerably increases confidence in this source as one of the very few primary accounts of her.
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This page is a summary of: An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799–1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, England, published inChambers's journalin 1857, and its attribution to Frank Buckland (1826–1880), George Roberts (c.1804–1860) and William Buckland (1784–1856), Archives of Natural History, October 2014, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/anh.2014.0250.
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