Mrs. Alfred Gatty (1809–1873)
Forfatter af Parables from Nature
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Image credit: Page From The Illustrated London News Dated 1873
Værker af Mrs. Alfred Gatty
The Circle of Blessing and Other Parables from Nature 2 eksemplarer
Aunt Judy's May-day Volume for Young People 1 eksemplar
The poor incumbent : a tale 1 eksemplar
AO - Geography & Poetry of Nature - Year 2 1 eksemplar
Māori legends by Uncle Tom 1 eksemplar
Victoria-Bess and others 1 eksemplar
British Sea-Weeds 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Gatty, Margaret
- Andre navne
- Scott, Margaret (birth name)
- Fødselsdato
- 1809-06-03
- Dødsdag
- 1873-10-04
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Burnham, Essex, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Erhverv
- naturalist
children's book author
magazine editor
amateur marine biologist - Relationer
- Ewing, Juliana Horatia (daughter)
Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty (daughter) - Kort biografi
- Margaret Gatty, née Scott, was born in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England, the daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott, a Royal Navy chaplain who was a friend of Horatio, Lord Nelson, on board HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1839, she married the Rev. Alfred Gatty, of the Church of St. Mary, in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire. She had 10 children, and it was during a prolonged convalescence from childbirth in 1848 that she was launched on a career as a science popularizer. Recuperating at the seaside in Hastings, she began collecting seaweed. She also met and befriended William Harvey, who gave her his book Phycologia Britannica to help her pass the time. She corresponded with him and other botanists and marine biologists of her day, including George Busk and Robert Brown. She eventually amassed a collection of marine material gathered from the far reaches of the British Empire. She began to write books for children, including The Fairy-Godmothers (1851) and the bestselling Parables from Nature (1856-1861), a series of stories mixing science, religion, and morality. She also wrote British Sea-Weeds (1863), which established her reputation as a serious amateur scientist. Her daughter Juliana Horatia Ewing also became a writer.
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Citaĵo
„ Ĝia ĉarmo ravas la animon de ĉiu meditanta homo. Stilo elegante fundamenta. ”
— 1923, Julio Baghy, Literatura Mondo, paĝo 119