![]() The birth of strapping, vigorous baby Alma in 1800 is much desired, after a series of still births and miscarriages. Survival and power are important in the novel. Alma Whittaker arrives at a theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest almost simultaneously with Charles Darwin, whose seminal work, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert, famous for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, presents a fictional early 19th century woman botanist. ![]() In Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver presents a working class woman whose observation of an environmental phenomenon ultimately leads her to complete her education. Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder concerned a female mad-scientist in the Amazon. Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures focused on two real-life women fossil hunters in the early 19th century. In recent years several excellent novels on women in science have appeared. ![]()
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