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Microbiology was in its infancy so women were little disadvantaged by a lack of reading (there were few books on the subject) or higher education. Grace Frankland, and husband, Percy, investigated the microbiology of water-borne diseases. Concerned with deprivation affecting inner-city women and children, she became an early scientific journalist. Gulielma Lister was introduced to mycology, and to the Essex Field Club, by her father, Arthur, the son of Lord Joseph Lister. She made herself the world’s leading authority on myxomycetes. The Listers entertained the Scotts, Arbers, and others, at their summer home in Lyme Regis. Gulielma’s good friend, and fellow Essex Field Club enthusiast, Annie Lorrain Smith, was similarly a mycologist, spending her working life, unsalaried, at the British Museum. |
