Reinterpreting Marianne North: life writing, botanical travel, and the legacies of empire

玛丽安·诺斯(1830-1890)的声誉主要建立在她最后十年完成的两个项目上：她在Kew的皇家植物园建立了独特的公共画廊(旨在永久展示她的植物学油画和木材标本)，以及她死后出版的生活写作。这项研究旨在重新解读诺斯作为旅行者、作家、艺术家和画廊制作人的作品，将他们的殖民、知识和社会背景作为重点。在这样做的过程中，这项研究将审查策展和历史学方面的挑战，即在叙述一位非凡个人的生活的同时，明确地涉及种族、殖民主义、阶级和性别结构她的作品及其表现的方式。在突出种族、帝国和使诺斯旅行成为可能的殖民劳工问题上，该项目将有助于更广泛地(重新)评估Kew的殖民遗产，并帮助为画廊重新解释的计划提供参考。该项目的发现将通过与英国皇家地理学会等非高等院校的合作(与英国地理学家协会合作)，帮助遗产组织开展更广泛的讨论，讨论如何最恰当地谈判其收藏品中的帝国主义遗产。

The reputation of Marianne North (1830-1890) rests largely on two projects completed in her final decade: the unique public gallery she established at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (designed to permanently display her botanical oil paintings and wood specimens), and her posthumously published life writing. This study aims to reinterpret these projects - North's work as a traveller, writer, artist, and gallery maker - by taking their colonial, intellectual, and social contexts as a key focus. In so doing, the study will examine the curatorial and historiographical challenges of narrating the life of a remarkable individual while at the same time engaging explicitly with the ways race, colonialism, class, and gender structured both the production of her work and its representation. In foregrounding issues of race, empire, and the colonial labour that enabled North's travels, the project will contribute to a wider (re)evaluation of Kew's colonial heritage and help inform plans for the gallery's reinterpretation. The project's findings will, through collaboration with non-HEIs such as the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), help to inform wider discussions among heritage organisations about how most appropriately to negotiate legacies of imperialism in their collections.