![]() ![]() Thus, in "The Littoral Zone," Jonathan and Ruby meet during a summer spent teaching marine biology. Having done so, they disappear behind a veil of obscurity, ignored by a society that is unwilling to recognize the intellectual abilities of women.īarrett has a masterly gift for taking a scientific or medical term, or an anecdote from the history of those disciplines, and using it as a metaphor for a character's interior plight. In this story, two 18th Century women join together to investigate, in secret, the behavior of birds of passage. Linnaeus also appears in passing in "Rare Bird," one of several stories whose plots center on the long history of women's frustrations in being taken seriously as scientists. ![]() Entering into his increasingly clouded mind, Barrett shows that even as he faces death, Linneaus cannot cease his attempts to methodically categorize all that lives. In "The English Pupil," she touchingly dramatizes the death of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who laid the foundations for the naming and classification of plants. ![]() Naturalists and botany appear to be Barrett's scientific specialty. ![]()
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