Mary Anning (58) (Little People, BIG DREAMS)

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I have experienced a range of stimuli, and had opportunities to participate in enquiries, both collaboratively and with growing independence. I can discuss why people and events from a particular time in the past were important, placing them within a historical sequence. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022. Anning served as inspiration for Sarah Perry's fossil-hunting protagonist, Cora, in the 2016 novel The Essex Serpent.

The greatest fossil hunter ever known was a woman from Lyme Regis. Mary Anning's discoveries were some of the most significant geological finds of all time. They provided evidence that was central to the development of new ideas about the history of the Earth. Brice, William (2001), Hugh S. Torrens, History of Geology Division Award, Citation, Geological Society of America, archived from the original on 20 July 2011 , retrieved 11 May 2010 Fradin, Dennis B. (1997), Mary Anning: The Fossil Hunter (Remarkable Children), Silver Burdett Press, ISBN 978-0-382-39487-4 It was like an itch or a twitch, just knowing that there were fossils out there waiting to be discovered. Tracy Chevalier's novel about Mary Anning is also about another woman--the genteel older woman Elizabeth Philpot. Despite the class and age differences between the two women, they became close friends as they shared their passion for collecting fossils. So this is not only a story about a woman who made invaluable contributions to science, but a story about the bond of friendship between two women.Taylor, M. A. and Torrens, H. S. (2014). An Anonymous Account of Mary Anning (1799–1847), Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, Published in All The Year Round in 1865, and its Attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827–1890), Schoolmaster, Parson, and Author. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 135, 71–85.

That woman, of course, is Charlotte Murchison, who many believe greatly influenced her husband’s research. It was Murchison who studied mineralogy and encouraged her husband, who was an army officer and then a fox hunter, to pursue scientific endeavors. Kölbl-Ebert wrote that Murchison later said: “It was during the years 1818-22 … that my wife was always striving to interest me in something more intellectual than the case, and began to teach herself mineralogy and conchology.”Walker, Sally M. (2000), Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter (On My Own Biographies (Hardcover)), Carolrhoda Books, ISBN 978-1-57505-425-4 This historical novel is somewhat loosely based on several people who actually lived, and either hunted or collected fossils, in England in the early 1800s. It alternates between the viewpoints of Elizabeth Philpot, a genteel spinster in reduced circumstances who moves to Lyme Regis by the sea (a hotbed for fossil-hunters) and discovers a passion for fossils, and Mary Anning, the daughter of a destitute cabinetmaker's widow, who supplements the family income by finding and selling fossils. Despite their differences in age and social status, the two form a friendship based on their mutual fascination with fossils that lasts for many years and survives some ups and downs. But for me the most intriguing aspect of the story, which was set primarily in Lymes Regis, England in the first quarter of the 19th century, was the capturing of that moment in time when there is a shift in the questions that scientists and other intellectuals are asking. Are these fossils animals that are no longer living? If so, why, and does that mean that God, their creator, is not perfect? Do the fossils that are being discovered mean that the earth is much older than currently thought? You get to experience these transformative thoughts that frighten people and eventually change the world in which we live. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. pp.ref:odnb/568. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/568 . Retrieved 30 November 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Statue of fossil-hunting pioneer Mary Anning to be unveiled in Dorset". The Guardian. 21 May 2022 . Retrieved 21 May 2022.

In 1991 Anning Paterae, a cluster of shallow volcanoes in the northern hemisphere of Venus [95] and in 1999, (3919) Maryanning, an asteroid were named after her. [96]The second woman is Anning's friend, Elizabeth Philpot, an educated woman who, being a spinster, relocated with her sisters to Lyme Regis after the death of their father. In fact, reading her story strongly reminded me of the sisters in Sense and Sensibility - and yes there even is a military man who plays a crucial role in the lives of both women. Brown, Don (2003), Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries, Houghton Mifflin Co, ISBN 978-0-618-31081-4 Royal Mint to commemorate fossil hunter Mary Anning". The Guardian. 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 25 February 2021.