To find out more about Sarah Bowdich
- “Women Peers in the Scientific Realm: Sarah Bowdich (Lee)’s Expert Collaborations with Cuvier, 1825- 1833”, in ‘Women and Science’, eds. Claire Jones and Susan Hawkins, Notes and Records 69: 1 (March 2015) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2014.0059
- “New Observations on a Geological Hotspot Track: Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo (1825) by Mrs T. Edward Bowdich’, Centaurus, 56:3 (August 2014) doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12060,
- “Fish with a Different Angle: The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain (1828-1838) by Mrs Sarah Bowdich (1791-1856)”, Annals of Science, 71:2 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2013.840927
To find out more about hidden women
- “Where are all the women?” Maggie Gray, Museums Journal https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/features/2021/05/where-are-the-women/
- Hartley, Lucy, ed. The History of British Women Writers, 1830-1880 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/book/10.1057/978-1-137-58465-6
- “Why sexist bias in natural history museums really matters”, Amy Fleming, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2019/oct/23/bad-science-sexist-bias-natural-history-museums-specimens
Works of fiction
- The Taxidermist’s daughter, Kate Mosse, 2014
- The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry, 2016
- The Botanist’s daughter, Kayte Nunn, 2019
- Diary of a Young Naturalist, Dara McAnulty, 2020
- Miss Benson’s Beetle: A Novel, Rachel Joyce, 2020
- Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Kim Todd, 2007
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer, Sydney Padua (2015)
- ‘The Other Einstein’, Marie Benedict (2016)
Films and documentaries
- The Essex Serpent (2022)
- Mary Anning and the Dinosaur Hunters (2021)
- Ammonite (2020)
- Picture A Scientist (2020)
- Jane (2017)
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- Mission Blue (2014)