![]() ![]() She is also passionate about her “monsters”, including the “crocs”, or crocodiles she finds in the Lias cliffs. Mary is determined to keep coal in the hearth and potatoes on the table. The family is brutally poor, a situation that only worsens when her father dies, leaving the Annings dependent on Mary’s fossil finds and their sales. She sells her finds outside her father’s cabinetmaking shop. Poor and uneducated, she is an intelligent young woman with “they eye”: an uncanny ability to spot “ammos”, “bellies”, and “verteberries” where others see only muddy sand and perilously sliding cliffs. ![]() Mary Anning, born in Lyme Regis, England, is a gifted locator of “curies”, fossils strewn along the water’s edge and trapped within the Blue Lias cliffs of her seaside hometown. Remarkable Creatures is the story of the unlikely friendship between two Englishwomen of very different backgrounds. ![]()
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