Author: Elizabeth B. Keeney

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0807862398

Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.