Charlotte Georgina Trower Explained

Charlotte Georgina Trower (born 1855, Ware, Hertfordshire, d. 8 November 1928, Ware, Hertfordshire) was the daughter of Edward Spencer Trower and his wife Emma nee Gosselin, she was a British botanical illustrator and botanist noted for her watercolor paintings of mostly British plants and flowers.^[1] She collaborated with her sister Alice and amateur botanist George Claridge Druce to create over 1,800 scientifically accurate paintings.^[2] Her illustrations were used as major contributions in two books, Skene's Flower Book for the Pocket and British Brambles.^[3]

Works

• Web site: Trower Botanical Illustrations Collection . herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk . Oxford University Herbaria . 4 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190404170420/https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/trower. 4 April 2019.
• Book: Skene . Macgregor . Trower . Charlotte Georgiana . Weston . Ruth . A flower book for the pocket . 1937 . Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford . 939667712 . English.
• Book: Watson . W . Trower . Charlotte Georgiana . Druce . G. Claridge . British brambles . 1929 . T. Buncle & Co. . 21308172 . English.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ogilvie . Marilyn . Harvey . Joy . Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie . Joy Harvey . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . 2003 . Routledge . 9781135963439 . 1305 . en.
2. Harris . S. A. . The Trower collection: Botanical watercolours of an Edwardian lady . Journal of the History of Collections . 2 March 2009 . 22 . 1 . 115–128 . 10.1093/jhc/fhn019.
3. Book: Way . Twigs . Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden . 2005 . The History Press . 9780752495781 . en.