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In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 133–146

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Chapter 7
Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

Flourishing female scientific writing

ORCiD logo with link | University of La Laguna
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.07mel
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botany
    • 2.1Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botanists
    • 2.2Sources
  • 3.Directives in female and male botanists
  • 4.Historical evolution of directives
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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