Tag: Margaret Fountaine

• Love Among the Butterflies

  One of my daughters took this photograph in the museum at Plymouth. The butterflies on display are not from Margaret Fountaine’s collection, but I like the picture! Margaret Fountaine was a feisty Victorian Englishwoman of independent means who travelled the world for 50 years collecting butterflies, and was totally unfazed by the unaccustomed situations and…

  chrisharding53

  September 10, 2012

  Butterflies. Victorian, diary, Margaret Fountaine, Travel