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Isabella Anne Allen
English botanist and painter (1810–1865) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Isabella Anne Allen (1810-1865) was a 19th century botanist who lived in the village of Madresfield, Worcestershire.[1]
Life
Allen was born on December 27, 1810. She was a member of the Floral Society in Malvern and regularly attended their botanical shows.[2] She was also a painter.[3] Allen died in 1865.[3]
In 2021, the Royal Horticultural Society found items within a donated book, The English Flora. They found a name, Isabella A. Allen, but no further details about the person who had collected the botanical items.[4] After an appeal in the press, the woman was identified as Isabella Anne Allen.[1][5]
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