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Life and times of Mary Vaux Walcott / Marjorie G. Jones.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Atglen, Pennsylvania : Schiffer Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0764349724
  • 9780764349720
Other title:
  • Mary Vaux Walcott
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QK98.183.W333 J66 2015
Contents:
Introduction: Youthful Giantess -- Chapter 1: City of Women -- Chapter 2: Bowling Along -- Chapter 3: This Wild Spirit -- Chapter 4: Thy Affectionate Daughter -- Chapter 5: With Mary -- Chapter 6: Splendid Wife -- Chapter 7: Audubon of Botany -- Chapter 8: My Dear Ladye -- Chapter 9: New Order of Things -- Conclusion: Her Forceful Life.
Summary: "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".
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves QK98.183.W25 J66 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800199911
Total holds: 0

Contains bibliographical references (pages 164-172) and index.

Introduction: Youthful Giantess -- Chapter 1: City of Women -- Chapter 2: Bowling Along -- Chapter 3: This Wild Spirit -- Chapter 4: Thy Affectionate Daughter -- Chapter 5: With Mary -- Chapter 6: Splendid Wife -- Chapter 7: Audubon of Botany -- Chapter 8: My Dear Ladye -- Chapter 9: New Order of Things -- Conclusion: Her Forceful Life.

"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".

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