Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures is a fictional tale of the friendship between Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two early 19th century women whose obsession with fossils added much to the birth of paleontology. The paperback edition was published this month by Penguin Books.
Anning and Philpot spent some thirty years together and separately seeking fossils on the beach near Lyme Regis, England. Their collections of dinosaur and extinct fish bones were used by men such as Cuvier, Agassiz and Lyell to study and begin the study of paleontology that led to Darwin's Origins of the Species.
Read the whole review Remarkable Creatures (About Archaeology)
- Remarkable Creatures (review from About Contemporary Lit)
- Mary Anning biography (About Dinosaurs)
- Mary Anning (Natural History Museum of London)
- Jurassic Woman, slide show about Mary Anning at the BBC
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