Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins British, 1799-1871 Anna Atkins was the daughter of John George Children, a respected scientist associated with the British Museum and secretary of the Royal Society, who introduced her to science and its small, tightly knit community in Britain. Taking advantage of her father's position as a member of the society's Committee on Papers, Atkins was among the first to hear directly of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's announcement of photography, as well as that of William Henry Fox Talbot, who disclosed the details of his own process to a meeting of the committee in February...