Contents

• Cecil Frances Alexander
• "All Things Bright and Beauteous"
• Mary Webb
• "Face to face with the sunflower"
• Lydia Becker
• "Is There Any Specific Distinction Between Male and Female Intellect?"
• From "On the Study of Science by Women"
• Emma Wallington
• "The Physical and Intellectual Capacities of Woman Equal to Those of Men"
• Mona Caird
• From "A Defence of the So-called ‘Wild Women’"
• Florence Dixie
• From Gloriana; or The Revolution of 1900
• Frances Swiney
• From Woman and Natural Law
• From "Man’s Necessity"
• Sarah Trimmer
• From Fabulous Histories
• Mary Martha Sherwood
• From Soffrona and Her Cat Muff
• Anne Bronte
• "The Uncle"
• "The Captive Dove"
• Eliza Cook
• "On Seeing a Bird-Catcher"
• Anna Sewell
• From Black Beauty, "Poor Ginger"
• Mathilde Blind
• "On a Forsaken Lark’s Nest"
• Christina Rossetti
• "Hurt no living thing"
• "Hopping frog, hop here and be seen"
• "Hear what the mournful linnets say"
• Mary Howitt
• "The Cry of the Suffering Creatures"
• Anna Sewell
• From Black Beauty, "The Hunt"
• Florence Dixie
• "The Horrors of Sport"
• Mary Webb
• From Gone to Earth
• Vernon Lee
• From "Vivisection: An Evolutionist to Evolutionists"
• Anna Kingsford
• From Spiritual Therapeutics, "Unscientific Science: Moral Aspects of Vivisection"
• Frances Power Cobbe
• From The Modern Rack, "Science in Excelsis: A New Vision of Judgement"
• Louise Lind-af-Hageby and Liese Schartau
• From The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology, "Fun"
• Eliza Cook
• From the preface to Poetical Works
• "Birds"
• Sara Orne Jewett
• From "A White Heron" and Other Stories, "A White Heron"
• Winifred, Duchess of Portland
• From the opening proceedings of "Protection of Bird and Animal Life," International Congress of Women
• Margaretta Lemon
• "Dress in Relation to Animal Life"
• Mary Webb
• "The Cuckoo Clock"
• Mary Russell Mitford
• From Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, "Walks in the Country: The Wood"
• Octavia Hill
• From "Our Common Land"
• Edith Nesbit
• From Wings and the Child; or, The Building of Magic Cities
• Juliana Horatia Ewing
• From A Great Emergency, & Other Tales, "Our Field"
• Charlotte Mew
• "The Trees Are Down"
• Margaret Emily Shore
• The Penny Magazine, "Account of a Young Cuckoo"
• The Penny Magazine, "The Golden-Crested Wren"
• From Journal of Emily Shore
• E. A. Maling
• From Song Birds and How to Keep Them
• Eliza Brightwen
• From More about Wild Nature, "Impey the Bat"
• From Inmates of My House and Garden
• Alice Dew-Smith
• From Tom Tug and Others: Sketches in a Domestic Managerie
• Harriet Martineau
• From Our Farm of Two Acres
• Annie Martin
• From Home Life on an Ostrich Farm
• Eliza Cook
• "Song of the Ostrich"
• Gertrude Jekyll
• From Children and Gardens, "Pussies in the Garden"
• Margaret Gatty
• From Parables from Nature, "Training and Restraining"
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• From The Secret Garden
• Mary Webb
• "A Cedar -Rose"
• Jane Loudon
• From A Lady’s Country Companion - - Elizabeth Twining
• From What Can Window-Gardens do for our Health?
• Annie Hassard
• From Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House
• Mary Kingsley
• From "Fishing in West Africa"
• Marianne North
• From Recollections of a Happy Life
• Louisa Anne Meredith
• From My Home in Tasmania
• George Egerton
• From "A Cross Line"
• R. H. Tyacke
• From How I Shot My Bears; or Two Years in Kullu and Lahoul
• Isabel Savory
• From A Sportswoman in India
• Isabella Bird
• From Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
• From A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Nina Mazuchelli
• From The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them
• Eliza Cook
• "Song of the Eagle"
• Dorothy Wordsworth
• From The Alfoxden Journal
• Emily Bronte
• "High Waving Heather"
• Charlotte Mew
• From The Poems of Emily Bronte
• Mary Howitt
• "The Dor-Hawk"
• Florence Dixie
• "With Nature"
• Eliza Cook
• "The Old Green Lane"
• "Not as I Used to Do"
• Beatrix Potter
• "Elder flowers"
• Eliza Brightwen
• From More About Wild Nature, "Dame Nature"
• Vernon Lee
• From Genius Loci, "Among the Marble Mountains"
• From The Spirit of Rome, "Asphodels"
• From The Tower of the Mirrors and Other Essays, "The Lizard in the Abbey Church"
• Amy Levy
• "To Vernon Lee"
• Alice Meynell
• "Rain"
• Octavia Hill
• From "Colour, Space, and Music for the People"
• Gertrude Jekyll
• From Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, "Gardens of Special Colouring"
• Mary Webb
• From The Spring of Joy, "The Beauty of Colour"
• Christina Rossetti
• "Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are"
• Michael Field
• "Noon"
• "Cyclamens"
• Mary Webb
• "The White Moth"
• Mary E. Coleridge
• "L’Oiseau Bleu"
• Charlotte Mew
• "The Sunlit House"
• Alice Meynell
• "A Dead Harvest: In Kensington Gardens"
• Jane Marcet
• From Conversations on Natural Philosophy
• Mary Somerville
• From On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
• Jane Loudon
• From The Young Naturalist
• Arabella B. Buckley
• From The Fairy-land of Science
• Ellis Ethelmer (Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy)
• From Baby Buds
• Arabella B. Buckley
• From Life and Her Children
• From Winners in Life’s Race
• A. Mary F. Robinson
• "Darwinism"
• Alice Bodington
• From Studies in Evolution and Biology
• May Kendall
• "The Lower Life" - - "Lay of the Trilobite"
• Miss White
• "The Training of Women as Gardeners"
• Sarah Bowdich Lee
• From Taxidermy; or The Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History
• Elizabeth Gould
• From a Letter of 9 January 1838
• Jemima Blackburn
• Letter to Nature, 14 March 1872
• Beatrix Potter
• "Hedgehogs"
• Eliza Cook
• From "Song of the Sea-weed" - - Anne Pratt
• From Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-side, "Zoophytes"
• Margaret Gatty
• From British Sea-weeds
• From Parables from Nature, "Knowledge not the Limit of Belief"
• Margaret F. Fountaine
• "Amongst the Rhopalocera of the Philippines"
• Eleanor Ormerod
• From Eleanor Ormerod, LL.D.
• Marie Stopes
• "The ‘Xerophytic’ Character of the Gymnosperms"
• From The Study of Plant Life for Young People
• From Married Love
• Mary Webb
• From "Vis Medicatrix Naturae"