Recollections of a Happy Life:Being the autobiography of Marianne North, ed. Mrs John Addington Symonds, Macmillan (1892).
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No life is so charming as a country one in England, and no flowers are sweeter or more lovely than the primroses, cowslips, bluebells, and violets that grow in abundance all around me here.
— Marianne North
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About Marianne North
Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890), an English naturalist and flower-painter, was born at Hastings, the eldest daughter of a Norfolk landowner, descended from Roger North.
About Marianne North
Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890), an English naturalist and flower-painter, was born at Hastings, the eldest daughter of a Norfolk landowner, descended from Roger North.
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