View the catalog record for Burges's Lepidoptera of the British Isles: QL555.G7 B87 1810+
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Mary Anne Burges (of Devon, England) is perhaps best known as the author of The progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, a sequel of sorts to The Pilgrim's progress, published anonymously in 1800. She was a multi-talented, well-educated woman, accomplished in foreign languages, music, art, geology, entomology, and botany. Her garden was a source of constant delight and solace, and there is much talk in her letters of the variety of flowers in bloom at her home in Devon, as well as mention of her attaining seeds from America to see if they will grow in the soil of southwest England. Burges never married, but in 1795 she assumed the care of her cousin, Julia Somerville (1792-1879), the youngest of nine children orphaned by the death of Colonel Hugh Somerville. In 1816, Julia Somerville married Francis Bond Head, who would (in 1836) become the sixth Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.
Subject Terms:
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763-1813. | Burges, Mary Anne, 1763-1813 -- Portraits. | Somerville, Julia Valenza, 1792-1879. | Burgess family. | Head, Francis Somerville, 1846-1941. | LinneĢ, Carl von, 1707-1778. Systema naturae. | Withering, William, 1741-1799. Botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain. | Flowers -- Pictorial works. | Plants, Ornamental -- Pictorial works. | Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Zaehnsdorf (Firm) -- Bookbinder. | Women in natural history.