Victorian Nightshades Catherine F. Yonkaitis Nancy Plain

Nancy Plain

Throughout her reign from 1985-1995

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The chapters in this innovative book introduce the quantitative analysis of linguistic survey data with specific reference to the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS)

Victorian Nightshades Catherine F. Yonkaitis Nancy PlainA darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century. Beginning with bittersweet and belladonna, the Old World species associated with evil, witchcraft, and dangerous women in an era when traditional botanical beliefs