Books by Marianne North
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A photograph of Marianne North at her easel, by Aldham & Aldham, engraved by T. Bailey, © National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D).
ainting en plein air had become popular during the nineteenth century, and flower-painting was considered a suitably feminine pursuit. But this glimpse of the demurely dressed Marianne North at her easel, apparently in solitude amongst exotic flora, is still surprising. Women were not expected to travel great distances, largely on their own, in order to paint uncommon varieties of plants in plains and valleys, on mountain-sides and even in jungles. However, after her father died in , that is exactly what North set out to do. She spent the last decades of her life making "a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. Often alone and in danger," as Lionel Lambourne says, she produced and brought back from all corners of the globe "brilliantly coloured paintings of unknown species, which were admired by figures as various as Swinburne and Charles Darwin" ().
If North's painting expeditions were unconventional, so were her works — instead of being drawn on paper, and heightened only with the delicate tones of watercolours,
[This document comes from Helena Wojtczak's English Social History: Women of Nineteenth-Century Hastings and ds. An Illustrated Historical Miscellany, which the author has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web. The images have been taken from other sources, as specified, and a note and bibliography have been added. Click on the title to obtain the original site, which has additional information.]
Portrait of Marianne North by Mary Anne Hall, Photo credit: The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, reproduced on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC).
Marianne North was born in at Hastings Lodge, on the corner of Ashburnham Road and Old London Road (a convent now occupies the site). although a childhood acquaintance of fellow painter Barbara Bodichon she never became involved with the women's emancipation movement. Indeed she was in no need of personal assistance, for her father was a wealthy magistrate and seven times M.P. for Hastings. Marianne lived in luxury and received a large inheritance, which she kept by remaining unmarried.
The Census shows Marianne (20), her sister (13), their parents, a governess and fiv
The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 1
Born I was—but how, when, or where I cannot say; so I must leave the reader to accept the assertion " per se, " and believe it if he will. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walk—or perhaps, I should have said jump—in life, became possessed of the learning, observation and power of commit-ting to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate. I can only remind him that there are intelligences, little suspected by the vulgar, and laws in nature, the very existence of which have not yet been detected by the advanced among the scientific world.
I have heard it somewhere remarked that my province was to get my living by blood sucking. I am not the lowest by any means of that universal fraternity, and if I sustain a precarious existence upon the bodies of those with whom I come in contact, my own experience proves that I do so in a marked and peculiar manner, with a warning of my employment which is seldom given by those in other grades of
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