FOSSILS, FAIRY TALES AND A QUIET REVOLUTION: CLEMENTINE HELM BEYRICH

Clementine Helm BeyrichOn a grey Berlin morning in the winter of 1863, a young girl named Anna quietly entered her foster mother’s study.She expected to find Clementine Helm bent over the draft of a gentle domestic tale—something proper, improving and entirely suitable for the young ladies of nineteenth-century Europe.Instead, she found her deep in conversation with a visiting scientist.He spoke