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By Tracy Chevalier
C hevalier, author of Girl With A Pearl Earring, again brings history to
life with this lovely novel about two very different women as they work
together hunting fossils on the beaches of Lyme Regis, England, in the
1800's. Mary Anning, a working-class villager, and Elizabeth Philpot,
an eccentric spinster of the middle class, find themselves at the
center of scandals and history as they challenge the male-dominated
world of archaeology. Their discoveries also put them at odds with the
rigid religious teachings of their times.
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