Presentation Editor:
"Lightning struck me throughout my life. But once for real" In the 1810s, in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast battered by winds, Mary Anning discovered his first fossil and is passionate about these "miraculous creatures" whose existence calls into question all theories on the creation of the world. Soon, the young girl from a modest background faces the prejudices of the scientific community, composed exclusively of men, which confines the role of figuration. Mary Anning is fortunately Elizabeth Philpot an unexpected ally. Celtic intelligent and acerbic old girl, fascinated by fossils, accompanies him in his explorations. If their friendship gradually doubles of a rivalry, it remains, given the general hostility, their best weapon. With a finesse that recalls fane Austen, Tracy Chevalier said in Prodigious Creatures, the story of a woman who defied his condition and his social class, is one of the greatest discoveries of the nineteenth century.
Me :
third novel I read this author and I must say that once again I was struck by his writing but also by history. Once started, I reluctantly whenever he needed to close the book time to find it later.
The story is in two voices: that of Mary Anning, the daughter of poor (the presentation of the editor describes as a girl from a humble background but when you live in the nineteenth century, and we must work out all the time, even sick to have something to eat or keep warm ...) and Elizabeth Philpot old girl of modest means.
Their paths cross when Elizabeth will live in Lyme Regis with her sisters. Is looking for a business, she discovered on the beach of small fossils and passion it so soon. Passion that she shared with Mary Anning and she became friends with her when they do not come from the same medium. Yet Elizabeth will always take place with Mary to defend as well as to be in his mid to it, as well as be with men.
It is not just a story of friendship that tells us here Tracy Chevalier is also a true story about all the names we read in the reading. The author makes us recall the conditions of women in this era that constantly face barriers like, for example, when Elizabeth donated one of his specimens in a museum, its name will be written but not its status as a woman. To access some societies, women are prohibited ...
A novel I loved, that made me a time traveler, and when I conquered turned the last page I wish that it keeps a little longer. Especially the big surprise when T. Knight lets us know that Mary, Elizabeth and all the others existed, as are women who found the fossils the most imaginable ...
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We were barely settled in Morley Cottage it became obvious that the fossils would become my passion. I had indeed find me: I was twenty-five years is unlikely to get married one day and needed a hobby to occupy my days. Sometimes it is extremely tedious to be a lady.
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