![]() This approach mirrors Anne’s direct referencing of geology in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Anne’s motives for building and maintaining her collection are also discussed by placing applied and contemporary science alongside cultural inquiry to gain a greater interdisciplinary perspective of Anne’s stone collection. Footnote 4 This allowed the origins and possible sources of the collection to be further investigated. We have re-examined the stones, a process that involved geological description and photographing of the collection and analyzing it using Raman spectroscopy. ![]() ![]() Working across the disciplines of literature, history and science, this research adds to the existing knowledge of the stones, and refocuses the perception of Anne as a well-informed, well-read young woman who participated in scientific activity. ![]()
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