Who Was Lady Emma Tankerville? Meet the 18th Century Botanist Who Didn’t “Get the Credit She Deserved”
Like many good stories, this one started with curiosity and a pile of boxes. In 2019, June Watson, a Ph.D. student in her seventies at Northumbria University, was researching her family history for a book she was writing. She found herself digging through crates of watercolors from 18th century aristocrat and nature enthusiast Lady Emma […]
