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Review: The Nearsighted Naturalist, by Ann Haymond Zwinger; Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness, by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher.!
Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher
American naturalist and author
Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher (born Theodora Morris Cope, January 4, 1906, died Theodora Gray, January 15, 2000[1]) was an American naturalist and writer.
I salute Sally Carrighar's Beetle Rock, Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher's "Driftwood Valley," and Louis Halle's "Spring in Washington" as among the best of these.
She is best known for her book Driftwood Valley (1946) which won the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished writing in natural history in 1948. She was recognized as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania[2] and elected to the Society of Woman Geographers.[3]
Early life and education
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Francis R.
Cope, Jr. and Evelyn Flower Morris, she lived much of her youth near rural Dimock, Pennsylvania, at the family home named Woodbourne. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929 with a BA in Economic Geography and English Literature.[4] After she completed her bachelor's degrees, she and her father traveled around the world for a year visiting the South Pacific, Singapore, Australia, New