Episode 39: Ammonite (2020)

Ammonite (2020) is a fictional historical love story based on the lives of two real Victorian paleontologists, Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison. Kim has a bee in her bonnet about this movie: too much hot sex and not enough paleontology! We’re definitely earning our “explicit” tag on this episode!

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In this episode:

Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning by Laurence Anholt: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Stone_Girl_Bone_Girl.html?id=r2v2FfOo684C

Lyell, Hutton, uniformitarianism, and catastrophism: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/uniformitarianism

Forgotten women of paleontology: Charlotte Murchison: https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-charlotte-murchison/

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier: https://www.tchevalier.com/10-rc/100-remarkable-creatures

Curiosity by Joan Thomas: http://joanthomas.ca/books/curiosity-a-love-story/

Dr. James Manby Gully’s “Water Cure”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Manby_Gully

The Victorians were not sexually repressed: https://medium.com/perceive-more/what-we-know-about-sex-in-the-victorian-age-is-absolutely-wrong-ca92b49e594a

Anne Lister’s coded lesbian diary: https://www.annelister.co.uk/