page_title: Fanny Dickerson Bergen
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Fanny Dickerson Bergen / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: glimpsesatplantw00berg (find matches) Title: Glimpses at the plant world Year: 1892 (1890s) Authors: Bergen, Fanny Dickerson, 1846- Subjects: Botany Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard New York, C. T. Dillingham Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: GLIMPSES AT THE PLANT WORLD BV \ CONTENTS. Page Glimpses at the Plant-world i I. What is a Plant&#160;? 13 II. The Plant which makes Bread rise . 17 III. What is Mould? 20 IV. A Word about Toadstools 25 V. Some other Flowerless Plants ... 28 VI. Frog-spit 34 VII. A Garden in the Sea 41 VIII. Sea Plants (Continued) 45 IX. Robin-wheat 51 X. Ferns 58 XI. The Walking-fern 62 XII. A Plant in Armor 67 XIII. The Linen Plant 73 XIV. Summary 77 XV. The Parts of the Flower 80 XVI. How Seeds are Perfected 87 vi , CONTENTS. Page XVII. How Flowers hire their Pollen car-ried 93 XVIII. Some Pollenglimpsesatplantw00berg Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Fanny Dickerson Bergen was an American folklorist, ethnobiologist and author.
context_section_description: Bergen was born Frances Dickerson in Mansfield, Ohio on 4 February 1846, to Thomas Dickerson and Rachel Gault of Richland County. Bergen worked as a teacher in old Woodville school then, Cleveland, Chicago and eventually at her alma mater Antioch College. Bergan attended Mansfield High school followed by Antioch College, Ohio graduating in 1975. During her time there her husband botanist Joseph Young Bergen had also attended, completing his master's while she was there. They married in 1876.
  Bergen was a folklorist who worked on superstitions and customs. She had a specific interest in horticultural superstitions. As a result of her work documenting American immigrant animal and plant lore Bergen is regarded as being an early female pioneer of ethnobiology. She also worked with her husband on a number of botanical books. In 1879 Bergen became ill with a spinal disease which invalided her.  She was also a contributor to Popular Science Monthly and Journal of American Folklore. She was considered an authority on folklore despite her inability to go into the field. Her grandmother told her stories from her life in Lake George, New York and talked about quilts. Very few patterns had been recorded when Bergen photographed and wrote about them in her article which was one of the earliest collection quiltmakers of names and designs in 1894.
  Bergen lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts where they had son Thomas Dickerson Bergen who was also an writer on Italian literature. He drowned in 1908. Bergen died in Boston in 1924.
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