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The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Marjorie G. Jones
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's studies, science, and art during the transformative times in ... Read more
Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's studies, science, and art during the transformative times in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764349720
SKU
V9780764349720
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About Marjorie G. Jones
Mid-career, Marjorie G. Jones, a graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, MA, and the Rutgers School of Law, returned to graduate school to earn an MA in historical studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City. There her thesis regarding the unpublished writing of British historian Frances Yates grew into her first book, Frances Yates and ... Read more
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