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Portrait or photograph of Mary Anning: Painting of Mary Anning made after her death, at the Geological Society/NHMPL, based on a portrait from 1842. [1]

Virtual Memorial

Mary Anning

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Mary Anning, remembered for Paleontology, Fossil discoveries, Natural history.

1799 - 1847Lyme Regis, England, United Kingdom
Portrait or photograph of Mary Anning: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover selfie taken at the location named Mary Anning, 12 November 2020.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover selfie taken at the location named Mary Anning, 12 November 2020. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24173-curiositys-selfie-at-the-mary-anning-location-on-mars/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Mary Anning Is Remembered

Mary Anning is remembered for paleontology, fossil discoveries, natural history. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Mary Anning.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Lyme Regis, England, United Kingdom is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Mary Anning's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset, South West England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Memorial or place connected to Mary Anning: Portrait of Mary Anning with her dog Tray and the Golden Cap outcrop in the background, Natural History Museum, Lond

Portrait of Mary Anning with her dog Tray and the Golden Cap outcrop in the background, Natural History Museum, London. This painting was owned by her brother Joseph, and presented

Credited to 'Mr. Grey' in Crispin Tickell's book 'Mary Anning of Lyme Regis' (1996), Two versions side by side , Sedgwick Museum. Also see here . According to the Sedgwick Museum, there are two versions. The earlier version is by an unknown artist, dated befor

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Image connected to Mary Anning: Mary Ann Shadd (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893), an African American educator, writer, abolitionist, and lawyer

Mary Ann Shadd (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893), an African American educator, writer, abolitionist, and lawyer

Unknown author Unknown author, nps.gov , courtesy of National Archives of Canada, C-029977, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Image connected to Mary Anning: Portrait drawing of Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich, daughter of Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and wife

Portrait drawing of Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich, daughter of Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and wife of Chauncey Goodrich (1759-1815), U.S. lawyer and p

Jacques Reich (based on a portrait by another artist), Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , 1900, v. 2, p. 681, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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