Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)

Books:

• Five Children and It (1902)
• The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
• The Story of the Amulet (1906)

Webs:

Biography Edith Nesbit http://victorian-era.org/famous-female-writers-of-victorian-era/edith-nesbit-1858-1924-biography.html

The Edith Nesbit Society http://www.edithnesbit.co.uk/biography.php

The New York Review. “The Writing of E. Nesbit” Gore Vidal. 1964. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/03/the-writing-of-e-nesbit/

“The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature” The New York Times, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/books/review/the-life-and-loves-of-e-nesbit-eleanor-fitzsimons.html

The University of Tulsa Archival Catalog: Edith Nesbit archive https://utulsa.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/19

Beatrix Potter
(1866- 1943)

Books:

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)
• The Tailor of Gloucester (1903)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
• The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)
• The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
• The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
• The Story of Miss Moppet (1906)
• The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907)
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
• The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
• The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
• The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910)
• The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
• The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
• The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)
• The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
• The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)

Webs:

Works by Beatrix Potter at Project Gutenberg  https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/292

Beatrix Potter Collection (digitized images from the Free Library of Philadelphia) https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/search/?subcollection=151

Beatrix Potter online feature at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences https://web.archive.org/web/20061212025728/http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/potter.htm

The Beatrix Potter Society, UK https://beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/about-beatrix/?doing_wp_cron=1622110054.6408429145812988281250

Collection of Potter materials at Victoria and Albert Museum https://web.archive.org/web/20090505073415/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/features/potter/index.html

World of Peter Rabbit: A website maintained by Potter’s first publisher Frederick Warne & Co. https://www.peterrabbit.com/

Dodie Smith (1896-1990)

• The Hundred and One Dalmations (1956)

Webs:

Dodie Smith Information Site: https://web.archive.org/web/20060806195254/http://home.comcast.net/~sulkowj/dodiesmith/index.htm

Philippa Pearce
(1920- 2006)

Books:

• Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
• Mrs Cockle’s Cat (1961)
• A Dog so Small (1962)
• The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977)
• Lion at School and other stories (1985)
• The Squirrel Wife (1971, re-illustrated and republished 2007)
• Beauty and the Beast – a re-telling (1972, re-illustrated 1996)

Webs:
The Philippa Pearce Lecture (Cambridge University) http://www.pearcelecture.com/

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Books:

• Under the Sea-Wind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.
• The Sea Around Us. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.
• The Edge of the Sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
• Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
• The Sense of Wonder. New York:  HarperCollins, 1998.
• Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Webs:

The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (Web site by Carson’s biographer Linda J. Lear) http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Rachel Carson: A Conservation Legacy https://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/

Rachel Carson: A Resource Guide. Library of Congress. https://guides.loc.gov/rachel-carson

Iowa State University. Archives of Women’s Political Communication. https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/rachel-carson/

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World. Virtual Exhibitions. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/rachel-carsons-silent-spring

Gene Stratton Porter (1863-1924)

Books:

• The Song of the Cardinal (1903)
• Freckles (1904)
• At the Foot of the Rainbow (1907)
• What I Have Done with Birds (1907, revised as Friends in Feathers in 1917)
• A Girl of the Limberlost (1909)
• Birds of the Bible (1909)
• Music of the Wild (1910)
• The Harvester (1911)
• Moths of the Limberlost (1912)
• Laddie (1913)
• Michael O’Halloran (1915)
• A Daughter of the Land (1918)
• Her Father’s Daughter (1921)
• The White Flag (1923)
• The Keeper of the Bees (1925)
• The Magic Garden (1927)

Webs:

“The Legend of the Limberlost”. March 2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/gene-stratton-porter-americas-fading-natural-beauty-180974161/

Gene Stratton-Porter. Indiana Historical Society.  https://indianahistory.org/education/educator-resources/famous-hoosiers/gene-stratton-porter/

Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites:  https://www.indianamuseum.org/historic-sites/gene-stratton-porter/

A Celebration of Women Writers: Gene Stratton-Porter. Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of «The Bird Woman» Contributor: Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924). Editor: S. F. E. (Eugene Francis Saxton, 1884-1943). New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stratton/gene/gene.html

“After Limberlost: Gene Stratton-Porter’s Life in California» on YouTube (a 2013 short documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXOtK7vaRp0

“Gene Stratton-Porter – a woman ahead of her time”- Indiana Historical Society, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAKFL7mAXs

Gene Stratton-Porter -Voice of the Limberlost. on YouTube (a 1996 documentary; produced by WIPB-TV), Ball State University, Libraries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOWDOfxbLw

Annie Dillard
(1945- )

Books:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)
• Holy the Firm (1977)
• Living by Fiction (1982)
• Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984)
• An American Childhood (1987)
• The Writing Life (1989)
• For the Time Being (1999)
• Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)
• The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New (2016)
• The Living (1992)
• The Maytrees (2007)

Webs:

Annie Dillard. Official Website:
http://www.anniedillard.com/

“Wonder Woman: The Ephiphanies of Annie Dillard”, by Simon Schreyer https://simonside.net/wonder-woman-the-epiphanies-of-annie-dillard/

Annie Dillard papers. Archives at Yale. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1577

Annie Dillard. Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame.  https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/annie-dillard

National Endowment for the Humanities. National Humanities

Diane Ackerman
(1948-)

Books:

• Bats: Shadows in the Night (1985)
• Monk Seal Hideaway (1995)
• Animal Sense, illustrated by Peter Sis (2003)
• A Natural History of the Senses (1990)
• The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,
• Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales (1991)
• A Natural History of Love (1994)
• Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (2009)
• The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us (2014)

Webs:

Official Website: http://www.dianeackerman.com/

Diana Ackerman: Natural talent https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/natural-talent-diane-ackerman/

Catching up with Diane Ackerman, author of «The Zookeeper’s Wife» https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/catching-up-with-diane-ackerman-author-of-the-zookeeper-s-wife

Helen Macdonald (1970-)

Books:

• H Is for Hawk (2014)
• Falcon (2006) 

Webs:

Helen Macdonald’s blog http://fretmarks.blogspot.com/

Helen Macdonald on Britain’s fiercest birds of prey https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/05/20/4238550.htm

Interview with Helen Macdonald: ‘It is hard to write about the natural world without writing about grief’, The Guardian, August 21, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/21/helen-macdonald-it-is-hard-to-write-about-the-natural-world-without-writing-about-grief

Ursula K Le Guin
(1929- 2018)

Books:

Ursula K Le Guin short bibliography: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VOhmtbfi1pPnaA7s8HdVCgZGrykTdru2/view

Some books about cats:

Catwings series (1988-1999):
•          Catwings (1988
•          Catwings return (1989)
•          Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
•          Jane on her own (1999)
A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988)
Cat Dreams (2009)
My life so far by Pard (2016)

Webs:

Ursula K Le Guin Official Website    https://www.ursulakleguin.com/home/

Ursula K Le Guin’s Blog   https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog-archive

Ursula K Le Guin archive   http://ursulakleguinarchive.com/New.html

Las doce moradas del viento. Spanish Webpage devoted to Ursula K Le Guin

http://www.docemoradas.com/

Documentary film Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin