She was six when her mother died and fourteen when she learned to stoke a furnace before dawn. No university would have her, so she taught herself Latin and named 395 plants anyway. On 18th April 1906 she walked a mile into a burning city to lower 1,497 type specimens down a ruined stairwell on rope, then spent forty years rebuilding what the fire took. In this dramatised interview she discusses serpentine endemics, mounting paper, the retitled paper she resented for decades, and what it costs to be called clerical.
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