Emma the Curious 🧐 on Nostr: “Your daughters, perhaps, have been seized with the prevailing 'Pteridomania' ... ...
“Your daughters, perhaps, have been seized with the prevailing 'Pteridomania' ... and wrangling over unpronounceable names of species (which seem different in each new Fern-book that they buy) ... and yet you cannot deny that they find enjoyment in it, and are more active, more cheerful, more self-forgetful over it, than they would have been over novels and gossip, crochet and Berlin-wool.”
- 1855, Charles Kingsley in his book Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore
#Victorian #botany
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