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Last Name Kirby

Given Name Elizabeth °

alt. Names E. K. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1823

Year died 1873

Place of death

Father's occupation businessman John Kirby (1xxx-1848)

Relatives Mary Kirby (1817-1893) (sister)

Education

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for M. Kirby & E. Kirby: Hummingbirds (1874) & Beautiful Birds & The Sea & World at Home ; Flora of Leicestershire (1850) ; Plants of Land & Water (1857) ; Caterpillars Butterflies (1860) ; Stories Birds of Land Water (1873) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Mary Kirby (sister) ; Emily Bolingbroke ; engraver Edward Whymper ;

Techniques marine, ornithological, botanical, entomological, and natural drawing

Sample(s) http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=title%3AHumming-birds,++by+Mary+and+Elizabeth+Kirby ;

Archival sources

Published sources Lightman, Bernard: Victorian Popularizers of Science 2009: 109 & 116f. ; Lightman, Bernard: Depicting Nature, in Shteir & Lightman 2006: 221-6 & 259 ;

other Brooksby, Leicester; juvenile authoress & amateur naturalist.

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