1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00020612

Autore

Sandoval, Prudencio : de

Titolo

3

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid : Atlas, 1956

Descrizione fisica

589 p. : 1 ill. ; 26 cm

Collana

Biblioteca de autores espaƱoles . (continuacion) ; 82

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794242003321

Autore

Barber Mary Elizabeth <1818-1899, >

Titolo

Growing wild : the correspondence of a pioneering woman naturalist from the Cape / / Mary Elizabeth Barber ; edited by Alan Cohen, Tanja Hammel, Jasmin Rindlisbacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, , 2020

ISBN

3-906927-04-0

3-906927-05-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Lives, legacies, legends.

Disciplina

574.0922

Soggetti

Women naturalists - South Africa

History

Personal correspondence

South Africa History Correspondence

South Africa Social life and customs History

Great Britain Colonies Africa History

Africa

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

"Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. She has been perceived as 'the most advanced woman of her time', yet her legacy has attracted relatively little attention. She was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, one of the first who propagated Darwin's theory of evolution, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested lepidopterist. In her scientific writing, she propagated a new gender order; positioned herself as a feminist avant la lettre without relying on difference models and at the same time made use of genuinely racist argumentation. This is the first publication of her edited scientific correspondence. The letters -- transcribed by Alan Cohen, who has written a number of biographical articles on Barber and her brothers -- are primarily addressed to the entomologist Roland Trimen, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London. Today, the letters are housed at the Royal Entomological Society in St Albans. This book also includes a critical introduction by historian Tanja Hammel who has published a number of articles and is about to publish a monograph on Mary Elizabeth Barber."--ProQuest