I am a very wild bird. — Marianne (image via Wikimedia Commons) After touring the world with her father, British political icon Frederick North, Marianne decided it was time for a voyage of her own. She had no artistic training and zero formal education in botany; but she loved plants, she loved painting and dammit, she was done with the confines of Victorian society.
A Woman to Know: Marianne North
A Woman to Know: Marianne North
A Woman to Know: Marianne North
I am a very wild bird. — Marianne (image via Wikimedia Commons) After touring the world with her father, British political icon Frederick North, Marianne decided it was time for a voyage of her own. She had no artistic training and zero formal education in botany; but she loved plants, she loved painting and dammit, she was done with the confines of Victorian society.