Initially intending to attend one semester abroad, she studied for a semester and never returned. Raised in Washington D.C., Tracy Chevalier moved to England in 1984 after graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio.

Education-B.A., Oberlin College (USA) M.A., University of.

Above all, is it a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship. Remarkable Creatures is a stunning novel of how one woman's gift transcends class and social prejudice to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.

Ultimately, in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches. And when she falls in love, it is with an impossible man.

Nature is a threat, throwing bitter, cold storms and landslips at her. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is barred from the academic community as a young woman with unusual interests she is suspected of sinful behavior. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, she learns that she has 'the eye'-and finds what no one else can see. A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and extraordinary time and place from bestselling author Tracy Chevalier.įrom the moment she's struck by lightening as a baby, it is clear that Mary Anning is marked for greatness.

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