Table of Contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘The Sweet Flowers that Smile in the Walk of Man’: floral femininity and female education
2. ‘Unveiling the mysteries of vegetation’: botany and the feminine
3. Sex, class and order in Flora’s army
4. Forward plants and wanton women: botany and sexual anxiety in the late eighteenth century
5. ‘Botany in an English dress’: British flora and the ‘fair daughters of Albion’
Conclusion
Appendices: Botanical poems by women
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Samantha George teaches eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield