Susanna Lister

[1] By the time she was eleven her polymath father was allowing her and her sister to experiment with oil paint but he prevented them from doing any serious limning until her had given them instruction.

The illustrations were thought to be essential by her father as he wanted them to distract observers from his interest in molluscs.

[6] Edward Lhwyd noted the enormous amount of work that the sisters donated to the task over some years.

It was believed that the copper plates were lost but her biographer, Anna Marie Roos, found that they were safely stored in the Bodleian Library.

[8] Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters by historian, Anna Marie Roos, was published by the Bodleian Library in 2018.