Lyme Regis

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, and many more. But there are also plenty of heroes people have heard very little or nothing at all about. Mary Anning is one of those heroes. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, England in a poor family. While little is known about her childhood, her father was a cabinet maker and sometimes he collected fossils. Mary and her brother were the only two children to make it to maturity. When her father died in 1810,…

Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars that caused food shortages. Her father, Richard, often took Mary on fossil hunting expeditions to make more money for the family. The source where Anning’s family collected fossils was the coastal cliffs around Lyme Regis. This place consists of fossils from the seas of the Jurassic period and is one of the richest fossils location in Britain. Fossils collecting are dangerous work because the cliff where Richard and Mary collected fossils is unstable.…

In the same year he studied in the Louvre, Paris. He also visited Venice. On a visit to Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England he painted a scene of a storm which is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum. Turner was often a guest of George O’Brien Wyndham, third Earl of Egremont, at Petworth House West Sussex and often painted scenes from the grounds of the…

Joseph Lister is a well-known biologist and the reason people survive surgery. He created a way to increase the survival rates for patients after a major surgery. Although it was more time consuming than the original way, it was worth it in the results. Joseph Lister came from an experienced educational background and added a major contribution to the biological society. His inspiration took him a long way and he created a name for himself in the biological community. Although Joseph Lister…

The narrator has a very strong presence in the novel, both to guide the linear time line as well as to provide commentary to various things throughout the book. Switching back from the diegetic world of Victorian England to his more modern time of the 1960’s, he draws conclusions from the information that is presented. The narrator provides insight to characters’ thoughts and backgrounds as well as provides historical background for the time period. He then contrasts Victorian time with his…