"An intriguing insight into a fascinating figure from history: Mary is a bold, brilliant and truly inspiring heroine." -Katherine Woodfine "Anthea Simmons tells Mary’s story as an exciting adventure and also as a rousing story of what an intelligent and brave woman can do." - LoveReading4Kids In January 2020, Neon (Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Monos, Border, Honey Land) acquired US distribution rights.
Principal photography began in March 2019 in Dorset. In 2018 it was announced that Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan would star in an upcoming film directed by Francis Lee (God's Own Country) entitled Ammonite, based on Anning's life and legacy, and with a lesbian romance plot. Another historical novel novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in 2010. In 2009, Tracy Chevalier wrote Remarkable Creature, a historical novel in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were main characters. In 2010, 163 year after her death, the Royal Society included Anning in a list of the 10 British women who have most influenced the history of science. In 2007, American playwright Claudia Stevens premiered a solo play depicting Anning late in life, with performances at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, and natural history museums at University of Michigan and University of Kansas. In 1999, on the 200th anniversary of her birth, an international meeting of historians, scientists, and others interested in her life was held in Lyme Regis. Charles Dickens wrote an article about her life in his literary magazine in Feb 1865. After her death, the president of the Geological Society wrote a eulogy that he read to a meeting of the society and published, the first such eulogy given for a woman. She became well known in geological circles in Britain, Europe and US, but as a woman, was not allowed to join the Geological Society of London or even attend meetings as a guest, and did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions.
Her discoveries became key pieces of evidence for extinction. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became internationally known for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel in Lyme Regis, Dorset county.
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