Insect Life. Translated from the French by the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori' [i.e., Margaret Roberts]. With a Preface by David Sharp and Edited by F. Merrifield, with Illustrations by M. Prendergast Parker.

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Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'To Chid, Jan 22/1902, from RB Cunninghame Graham', with his device drawn beneath - the recipient was his wife, Gabriela, who claimed to be the child of a French nobleman, who had been taken to Chile to live with an aunt and attend convent school following her parents' death, but was in fact Caroline Horsfall from North Yorkshire. The facts of her origin only became generally known in the 1980s - and the circumstances of the fabrication remain a matter of intrigue and speculation, likewise the degree to which her husband was aware.A selection from Fabre's extensive entomological writings, to introduce him to English readers.