Marianne North
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Born January 1, 1830
Died January 1, 1890 (60 years old)
Hastings, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also known as: North, Marianne, 1830-1890.
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Some further recollections of a happy life, selected from the journals of Marianne North, chiefly between the years 1859 and 1869
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Abundant beauty
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In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings.