Ebook: Collecting ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

Mueller's milieu: muses, minions and missed matrimony -- 'Art combined with Literature': Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895) -- 'Beloved bride': Euphemia Henderson (1820-1907) -- 'Nature amuses the mind': Fanny Anne Charsley (1828-1915) -- 'The genial floral artist': Anna Frances Walker (1830-1913) -- 'Two daughters very clever': Harriet Scott (1830-1907) and Helena Scott (1832-1910) -- 'An excellent creature': Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872) -- 'Drawn with loving hands': Fanny De Mole (1835-1866) -- 'Compliments to your generous Lady': Margaret Forrest (1844-1929) -- 'Like a charming spoiled child': Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) -- 'More or less ladies': Rosa Fiveash (1854-1938) -- 'A drawing room treasure': Gertrude Lovegrove (1859-1961) -- 'An enumeration of all fungs': Flora Martin (1845-1923) and Marie Wehl (1862-1960) -- Biographical details of Ferdinand von Mueller and 'his' lady collectors.;Around 1870 Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for lady plant collectors.