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Title: The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Condition: New
Author: Marjorie G. Jones
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0764349724
EAN: 9780764349720
ISBN: 9780764349720
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Genre: Biography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Arts & Photography
Release Date: 28/12/2015
Description: Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860–1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott’s reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women’s studies, science, and art during the transformative times in which she lived. Walcott, and other intrepid women like her, who sought escape from Victorian social conventions and opportunity for adventure and self-expression in the American West, were gifted artists, writers, and historians.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 771g
Release Year: 2015

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