6/4/2023 0 Comments Outta Sight by Mary Blakeslee(Oh, and if we’re being very picky, look out for the page heading where the proof reading process failed to spot this enigmatic heading for one of the pages of notes that sounds like something out of the Da Vinci Code: THE CHAPNOTESTER TITLE… think about it. I don’t say this to take away from Mary’s achievement – or to knock Pierce’s book – but it is gilding the lily a touch. Mary’s father was a craftsman, not a humble labourer, and they could afford to hire men – this was certainly not a wealthy family, it was a family who had to work for their living, but by 19th century standards, certainly not as lowly as Pierce makes out. When she and her brother found their first major fossil (when Mary was 12, the Annings “hired men to dig out the complete skeleton.” Compare these with the living conditions of, say a Lancashire cotton worker, crammed with maybe a dozen others in a two up, two down shack, and this is relative wealth. What does outta sight mean Information and translations of outta sight in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Her family lived in a 3 story house with cellar and bow windows. While it’s true Mary’s family was not in the “educated classes”, her poor and lowly circumstances were certainly relative. The only thing I’d take issue with is her statement that Mary was “born and bred in lowly circumstances”.
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