sea-anemones Archives - Ann Lingard https://annlingard.co.uk/tag/sea-anemones/ writer, author, essayist, UK Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:04:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Seaside Pleasures: The anemonizers of Scotland https://annlingard.co.uk/2017/11/25/seaside-pleasuresthe-anemonizers-of-scotland/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:43:26 +0000 https://eliotandentropy.wordpress.com/?p=1034 “An anemone of medium size may be safely sent by post in a small tin-cannister, without water, but with a small tuft of damp sea-weed, rag, or blotting-paper, to maintain a moist atmosphere around the animal …” The Victorian naturalist Philip Henry Gosse advertised thus for specimens of sea-anemones and corals to be sent to [...]

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]]> ‘Seaside Pleasures’: the novel https://annlingard.co.uk/2017/11/25/seaside-pleasures/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:38:42 +0000 https://eliotandentropy.wordpress.com/?p=995 When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House in Cornwall, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history … Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson: their [...]

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