![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth (also a historical figure, like most of the characters) is impressed by Mary’s sharp eye and considerable knowledge about fossils, remarkable qualities for an illiterate girl. Paired with Mary’s narrative is that of Elizabeth Philpot, dispatched with her two sisters from London to the coast when their brother marries. Raised in Lyme Regis on the English coast, she’s trained by her father to spot what they call “curies” (curiosities): ammonites, belemnites, fossilized fish on the beach and embedded in cliffs that the family sells to tourists during the summer. In young Mary’s case, however, finding fossils quite simply keeps her family from the workhouse. ![]() More fact-based historical fiction from Chevalier ( Burning Bright, 2007, etc.): the vivid, rewarding tale of 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning.īefore Darwin’s findings rocked the world, a small group of scientists were already-in some people’s view, blasphemously-questioning the age of the Earth, the finality of God’s creation and the possibility of an ancient world before man. ![]()
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