About Margaret Plues
Lived 1828 – 1903 (aged 74–75). Margaret Plues was a British botanist, nun, writer, mycologist and governess.
Margaret Mary Plues (ca. 1840 – 1903) was a British botanist and writer known primarily for her popularizing botanical books, especially those on the ferns and grasses of Great Britain. She also wrote under the pseudonym Skelton Yorke. (1863, with Edward Wood) Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants (1864) British Ferns: An Introduction to the Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta Indigenous to the British Isles (1866) A Selection of Eatable Funguses of Great Britain (1866) British Grasses: An Introduction to the Study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland (1867) Jessie's Holiday; or, Six Months at Throstle's Nest (1879)
As Skelton Yorke Hilda, or the Old Seat of Council (1868) Aunt Margaret's Little Neighbours; or, Chats About the Rosary (1872; story collection) Noel; or, It Was to Be (1865, with Robert Baker)
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Who was Margaret Plues?
English botanist (1828-1903)
When was Margaret Plues born?
Margaret Plues was born in 1828 in Ripon.
When did Margaret Plues die?
Margaret Plues died in 1903 in Weybridge.
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Margaret Plues was a botanist, nun, writer, mycologist and governess.
What nationality was Margaret Plues?
Margaret Plues was British.
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