![]() Her interest leads her to Mary Anning, a young working-class girl with an uncanny eye for spotting the fossils her family sells to tourists as curiosities. ![]() Elizabeth’s discovery of an ammonite fossil captures her imagination and she finds consolation in an “unladylike” new occupation: fossil collecting. They are swiftly banished to genteel, parsimonious exile in the small coastal resort town of Lyme Regis, far from their city friends and cultural pursuits. When Elizabeth's brother, comfortably middle-class London solicitor John Philpot announces his decision to marry two years after his father’s death, his three dependent maiden sisters are apprehensive, and rightly so. ![]() Elizabeth Philpot and Mary Anning share a deep bond that transcends the barriers of age and social class: their passion for fossil-hunting and scientific enquiry. Set in Regency England, Remarkable Creatures is the story of two awkward, intelligent women, narrated in their alternating voices. ![]()
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