It is, however, middle-class spinster Elizabeth Philpot - also a fossil collector - who narrates much of Chevalier’s tale,Īnd it is Elizabeth, with her cosmopolitan London manner, who offers up a world of hope to Mary and her poverty-ridden family.
Nicknamed “the lightening girl,” Mary lived with her family in Lyme Regis selling fossils until the early 1820s. In this remarkable novel of the role that God plays in the creation of all living creatures, Chevalier unfurls the fascinating life of little-known fossilist Mary Anning (1799-1847), who was credited with the discovery of the first specimen of the Ichthyosaurus to be known by the scientific community of London.
Book review: Tracy Chevalier's *Remarkable Creatures*
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