Meet Marianne North, who defied Victorian convention to paint the world's jungles
by Adrian Higgins

The Washington Post    Translate This Article
7 March 2017

On 7 March 2017 The Washington Post reported: By contemporary standards, Marianne North led an extraordinarily creative and productive life. Over the span of 15 years, she traveled to five continents and 17 countries, seeking out the most remote and hazardous parts of the tropics to paint exotic and undiscovered plants, presenting them in their jungle environments. The achievement, however, is amplified by the fact she did this in the 1870s and 1880s ... she sailed from England to the distant shores of Borneo, the Seychelles and Chile and produced more than 1,000 paintings ... Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the fields of science and environment, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

The Smithsonian Channel will tell her story Wednesday [8 March] at 8 p.m. [U.S. EDT], with 'Victorian Rebel: Marianne North' ...

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The Washington Post article links to this Smithsonian Channel website about the show: Victorian Rebel: Marianne North

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