No known portrait of Eleanor exists, but I feel as if I know her after listening to her telling me her story.Īt 516 pages, I feel that the story could have been told in many less. That is, until Fiona Mountain spent three years researching Eleanor Glanville in order to tell her remarkable story. Why? Because her second husband and her children were people of their time who said she was mad and called her a witch.
Do we know that she's responsible for naming several species of butterflies? No. Through two marriages and four children, she became one of the world's foremost lepidopterists (authorities on butterflies). This craving ultimately led to her love of and obsession with butterflies. The estate upon which she grew up was mostly marshland in Somerset, and Eleanor always craved to be outdoors.
Although she had a stern Puritan upbringing, her father also educated her in the sciences- a very rare occurrence in the seventeenth century. First Line: They say I am mad and perhaps it's true.Įleanor Glanville's father fought with Cromwell in the English Civil War.
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