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Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes

Contributors:

By (Author) National Library of Australia
By (author) Louisa Atkinson

ISBN:

9780642278609

Publisher:

National Library of Australia

Imprint:

National Library of Australia

Publication Date:

1st April 2015

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Nature in art

Dewey:

741.6092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

108

Weight:

376g

Description

Nineteenth-century writer and journalist Louisa Atkinson was a remarkable woman. She was the author, at the age of 23, of the first novel penned by a native-born woman to be published in Australia. She was also a keen naturalist, whose close observations and detailed knowledge of the natural world found expression in the articles she wrote for Sydney newspapers. Yet Louisa Atkinson also created many artworks of the flora and fauna around her home in the Blue Mountains, most of which went unpublished during her lifetime. Presented in the style of a sketchbook, and organised by season, Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes teams Louisa's beautiful drawings and paintings of Australian plants, animals and birds with short extracts from her nature writings. The book includes an essay about Louisa Atkinson's life and milieu by nature and science writer Penny Olsen.

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