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Theatres of Glass: The Woman Who Brought the Sea to the City
 
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Theatres of Glass: The Woman Who Brought the Sea to the City [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Rebecca Stott (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Short Books, London; illustrated edition edition (16 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904095364
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904095361
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 506,557 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the winter of 1847, the cloisters of Westminster Abbey enjoyed a sudden growth in popularity - though the visitors who streamed in were not of the usual kind. They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large collection of madrepores and sea sponges kept in glass cases in the drawing-room of Ashburnham House. The Abbey aquarium was established not by the Revered Lord John Thynne, the Sub-Dean of the Abbey, but by his extraordinary wife Anna, a great beauty and mother of 10 children, who by a process of serendipity, discovered how to keep and breed her pet sea creatures in glass tanks in central London. Anna's invention of the aquarium coincided with a major philosophical turning point in history. Married to a clergyman, she found herself working in a field which cut right through to the heart of the prevailing conflict about the origins and development of life on the planet.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great cultural history, 23 Oct 2006
A fascinating study of the life of a forgotten but unusual and obsessive Victorian woman, who collected some strange sea creatures in the 1840s and committed herself to finding out how they could be kept alive so that she could observe them. A moving and strange tale.
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