While more than 300 years have Mary Anning: Lyme Regis statue of fossil-hunting pioneer approved". BBC News. 1 January 2022 . Retrieved 2 January 2022. This pregnancy, of course, was a critical, if unintended artefact in the Channing case, providing an 8-month window of opportunity for appeals against the sentence to be lodged. Richard Brooks lost no time in petitioning Queen Anne and Mary’s eldest brother presented a petition signed by several Dorchester citizens to the judge at Wells. Mary’s mother sought the help of a lady, but all these efforts were to no avail. Multifarious deaf ears could not save a sinful teenager from the terror and humiliation of a public hanging. Pleading her belly gave Channing a short reprieve. In a very pagan manner she was to be burned on on the floor of Dorchester’s ancient Roman amphitheatre called Maumbury Ring. Her death had to wait until 5pm as the under-sheriff wanted to finish his tea. A huge crowd of 10,000 people came to watch Channing die, weak following childbirth and still only 19. She was believed to be alive when the fire was lit due to the strangling being botched. Thomas Hardy, author of works like Tess of the D’Urbrevilles, who portrayed “fallen” women in compassionate, complicated and realistic terms despite victorian moral outrage, believed in Channing’s innocence and wrote in his Mayor of Casterbridge that likely, “Not one of those ten thousand people cared particularly for hot roast after that”. Hardy throughout his career who stand up for women like Mary Channing and decried the treatment of her in life and death, whether she was innocent or not. Strevens has took his torch and is enabling Mary Channing’s voice to be heard clearly for the first time. Out of the gloom that gathers round the history of the Dorchester gallows in past centuries, two or three figures, or groups of figures, stand out distinctly, and whilst on the subject it seems a fitting opportunity to recall. them. One and the latest has been already named, the unfortunate Mary Channing, but 18 years old, burnt in the Amphitheatre in

Berkeley, Edmund; Berkeley, Dorothy Smith (1988), George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist, University of Alabama Press Taylor, M. A. and Torrens, H. S. (2014). An Anonymous Account of Mary Anning (1799–1847), Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, Published in All The Year Round in 1865, and its Attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827–1890), Schoolmaster, Parson, and Author. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 135, 71–85.In 2010, 163 years after her death, the Royal Society included Anning in a list of the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science. [86] In Speed's plan of the town of Dorchester, published in 1611, the gallows is clearly located at the angle of what is now called 'Icen Way', and 'South Walks' . It is depicted, not in the gibbet form, such as one might have frequently seen at cross-roads in the country, with the wasted frames of highwaymen hanging in irons, rattling out their unwholesome sermons to passers by as long as they held together; but in the usual pattern of two upwrights with a cross beam connecting them. The gallows by the amphitheatre seems to have been in regular use up to the time that the new prison was built, facing North-Square, about the year 1795. At that time, or soon after, the humane method of dispatching prisoners more rapidly, by giving them a longer drop, was allowed. This seems to have been provided for in executions at the prison. An Execution Bill of 1807 describes the hanging of three men on " the new drop upon the lodge of the Castle at Dorchester." I have a broadsheet giving the sentences of prisoners at the Lent Assizes at Dorchester in 1801. There were 48 cases tried, almost all for thefts. Several were sentenced to transportation for very small offences, ten were condemned to death, one being a woman, Lydia Hiskins, for stealing a banknote. Plainly up to that date harsh measures had not succeeded in curing the poor people of their belief in the right to live by hook or by crook.

Home, Everard (1814), "Some Account of the Fossil Remains of an Animal More Nearly Allied to Fishes Than Any of the Other Classes of Animals", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 104: 571–577, doi: 10.1098/rstl.1814.0029, S2CID 111132066 In 2018, a new research and survey vessel was launched as Mary Anning for Swansea University. [97] and a suite of rooms named after her at the Natural History Museum in London. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022.Although the grocer was an acceptable suitor in the eyes of the Brooks, their daughter’s affections lay elsewhere. Channing himself turned his attentions to another prospective bride for a time, but the iron will of Mrs Brooks proved to strong to countermand. As for Mary, her rejection of Thomas brought about confinement to her room for several days in punishment. Eventually, for the sake of her freedom, she grudgingly agreed to marry Channing. Sutcliffe, J. C. (26 March 2010). "Review: Curiosity, by Joan Thomas". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022 . Retrieved 31 August 2022. The only person who did name a species after Anning during her lifetime was the Swiss-American naturalist, Louis Agassiz. In the early 1840s, he named two fossil fish species after Anning – Acrodus anningiae, and Belenostomus anningiae – and another after her friend Elizabeth Philpot. Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834. [43] After Anning's death, other species, including the ostracod Cytherelloidea anningi, and two genera, the therapsid reptile genus Anningia, and the bivalve mollusc genus Anningella, were named in her honour. [22] [92] In 2012, the plesiosaur genus Anningasaura was named after Anning [93] and the species Ichthyosaurus anningae was named after her in 2015. [94] drawn, hanged, bowelled, and quartered" for maintaining the Roman power; but the sentence was carried out at Winchester.

Torrens, Hugh (1995), "Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; 'The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew' ", The British Journal for the History of Science, 25 (3): 257–284, doi: 10.1017/S0007087400033161, JSTOR 4027645For many, the Natural History Museum is a place that inspires learning, gives purpose and provides hope. People tell us they 'still get shivers walking through the front door', and thank us for inspiring the next generation of scientists. To reverse the damage we've done and protect the future, we need the knowledge that comes from scientific discovery. Understanding and protecting life on our planet is the greatest scientific challenge of our age. And you can help. Anonymous (1828), Another discovery by Mary Anning of Lyme. An unrivalled specimen of Dapedium politum an antediluvian fish, vol.108:5599, Salisbury and Winchester Journal, p.2 On January 15th 1705 an extraordinary marriage was solemnised in a Dorchester church. Extraordinary, because neither party to the union, especially the bride, was committed to the other out of mutual affection. Furthermore, the groom could scarcely have imagined that the ceremony would launch them both on a fateful journey that would end in capital crime and capital punishment. Neither could he have imagined that before spring turned to summer that year he would be dead. The execution of Mary Bateman at York’s New Drop Gallows, happening 103 years after Channing’s in 1809, was an excuse for people to revel in violence. Bateman’s “vicious disposition” resulted in possibly a 20,000 strong audience, many from her home town Leeds or victims of her hoaxes. She was a witch in deed if not in nature to them. The biography on her The Extraordinary Life[…], published two years later in 1811 went into 12 editions, as people sought to understand her evil. Anholt, Laurence (2006), Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning, Frances Lincoln Publishers, ISBN 978-1-84507-700-6