Sara Sheridan is an award-winning writer and activist. Her work, which includes more than twenty books, focuses particularly on female history. Her first novel, Truth or Dare (1998), received a Scottish Library Award and her book Where Are The Women? (2019) was listed as one of the David Hume Institute’s Books of the year 2019. She also mentors fledgling writers for the Scottish Book Trust.
Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan
The Fair Botanists
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Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
The Enlightened Botanist
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Sara Sheridan
On the Origins of The Fair Botanists and the Research Process
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From Chawton House
Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain
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Perfumier Sasha Leroux
On the Perfume of The Fair Botanists
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Perfumier Sasha Leroux
Recreating the Perfume from The Fair Botanists
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From Chawton House
Flora Domestica
Tree Transplanter
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Regency Clothes
Elizabeth’s Dress for Dinner At 62 Great King Street
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Sara Sheridan
On the Origins and Future of Belle and Elizabeth
Holyrood Place
Royal Residence
Sara Sheridan’s Inspiration
For The Fair Botanists
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From Chawton House
A Curious Herbal
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Perfumier Sasha Leroux
On the Art of Perfume Making
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From Chawton House
The Life Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Featured book by Sara Sheridan
The Fair Botanists
It’s the summer of 1822, and in Edinburgh botanists patiently await for the Agave Americana plant to flower in the newly-installed Botanic Garden. When newly widowed Elizabeth moves into the grand house bordering the Botanic Garden, she becomes interested as an artist in recording this once-in-a-lifetime event. It is then that she meets the vivacious and mysterious Belle Brodie, a woman with a passion for botany and the lucrative, dark art of perfume creation. Despite her best efforts, Belle will not be able to keep her secrets hidden for long, and secrets can have the greatest of consequences…
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