I feel really sorry on behalf of a 19th century lady. Self educated, doing free labour for her husband. For that husband to write entire preface, being embarrassed by her: "Engravings are the first performances of a lady but little skilled in the art (...) destitute of that neatness and uniformity"
Natalia (娜塔莉)Early British Palaeontology trivia. Divorce was impossible till 1857. It's unusual, wife of Gideon Mantell, Mary, seperated in 1839 Mary illustrated works of her husband to rather condescending credit The dispute between the pair complicates attributing discovery of the first dinosaur (Iguanodon)