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When botany became no work for a lady

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Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England 1760 to 1860.

By Ann B. Shteir. Johns Hopkins University Press: 1996. Pp. 301. $29.95, £22.50.

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