Tag: Ellen Hutchins

• Interview – Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021

  

  Aside from being one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, Bantry Bay (West Cork) and surrounding area is famous for something else that, more than likely, not enough people know about – it was home to Ellen Hutchins (1785 – 1815), Ireland’s first female botanist, and a significant contributor to her particular field of…

  RestingWillow

  August 12, 2021

  in conversation

  Bantry Bay, botanist, botany, cultural festival, culture, Ellen Hutchins, Ellen Hutchins Festival, heritage, interview

• Book Review – A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee

  

  The fisherman sidled up to her on the quay. ‘You’re Miss Hutchins, the plant lady from Ballylickey.’ A Quiet Tide, the debut novel by Marianne Lee, takes us back in time to the early 1800s, immersing us in an intimate and compelling fictionalised account of the life of Ellen Hutchins, Ireland’s first female botanist.  After…

  RestingWillow

  July 9, 2021

  book review, books

  A Quiet Tide, book blogger, book discussion, book review, botany, Ellen Hutchins, historical fiction, inspirational women, Irish author, Irish blog, Irish book blog, Irish book blogger, Irish botanist, Irish scientists, Marianne Lee, New Island Books