Further Reading

Deborah Cadbury, The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World, 2000 (UK); as Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science, 2001 (US)

William Conybeare and Henry De La Beche, papers on the ichthyosaur and plesiosaur for the Geological Society, 1821, 1822, 1824, reprinted in The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906, edited by David B. Weishampel and Nadine M. White, 2004

Jo Draper, Mary Anning’s Town: Lyme Regis, 2004

John Fowles, A Short History of Lyme Regis, 1991

Charles C. Gillispie, Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850, 1951

S.R. Howe, T. Sharpe and H.S. Torrens, Ichthyosaurs: A History of Fossil “Sea-Dragons”, 1981

W.D. Lang, various papers on Mary Anning in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1936-1963

Christopher McGowan, The Dragon Seekers: The Discovery of Dinosaurs During the Prelude to Darwin, 2001

Judith Pascoe, chapter on Mary Anning in The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors, 2005

Patricia Pierce, Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters, 2006

George Roberts, Roberts’ History of Lyme Regis and Charmouth, 1834

Martin J.S. Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, 2005; and Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, 2008

Philippe Taquet, “Quand les Reptiles marins anglais traversaient la Manche: Mary Anning et Georges Cuvier, deux acteurs de la découverte et de l’étude des Ichthyosaures et des Plésiosaures,” in Annales de Paléontologie 89 (2003): 37-64

Crispin Tickell, Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, 1996

Hugh Torrens, “Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme; ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’,” in British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1995): 257-84