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Andrews, Eliza Frances (1840 - 1931)

Short name Andrews, Eliza Frances
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First name Eliza Frances
Birth name Andrews
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Alternative name Andrews, Fanny
Date of birth 1840
Date of death 1931
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Place of birth Washington (Georgia)
Place of death Rome (Georgia)
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Unknown maker, photograph of Eliza Frances Andrews, 1865, in The War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, D Appleton, NY, 1908
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Unknown maker, photograph of Eliza Frances Andrews, 1865, in The War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, D Appleton, NY, 1908 None is portrait of
Charlotte A. Ford, 'Eliza Frances Andrews, Practical Botanist, 1840-1931', The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 63-80
Botanist, novelist. Starting 1885 Fanny taught literature and French at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Travelled to Europe in 1897, collected plants in France, Switzerland, Swiss-German border, and England. In 1926 she became the first American woman invited into the International Academy of Literature and Science in Italy. Due to age, however, she did not travel to Naples to address the Academy. Reviews of her work cited in Ford 1986. According to Ford, 'Practical Botany was also translated for use in the French school system'.