Flora's Fieldworkers by Ann Shteir, Suzanne Zeller - 9780228011125

McGill-Queen's University Press

Flora's FieldworkersWomen and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada\nAuthor(s): Ann Shteir, Suzanne Zeller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228011125, 978-0228011125\nSynopsis\nWhen Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field.\n Flora's Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial.