More than 150 years ago, Sir Crispin Tickell鈥檚 great great great Aunty
Mary sold sea shells on the sea shore. She was Mary Anning, and she found and
sold some of the first and finest fossil fish and marine reptiles to be
discovered in the Jurassic rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset. She might not have
borne much physical resemblance to Meryl Streep鈥檚 character in the film The
French Lieutenant鈥檚 Woman, but she too was a talented, tough and finally
tragic woman, trapped by the limitations of her class, sex and time. Only now
are Anning鈥檚 skills and acute observations about the fossils finally being
recognised. Try Tickell鈥檚 account Mary Anning of Lyme Regis (Lyme Regis
Philpot Museum, Tel: 01297 44337, 拢2.99, ISBN 0 9527662 0 5).
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