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