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The Wonders Of Plant Life Under The Microscope
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick
G.P. Putnam, 1896
Botany
Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick was an American journalist, editor and writer. She wrote scientific articles for the Southern Review.
Background
Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick was born on March 26, 1837, in Gambier, Ohio, United States, the eldest child of Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Southern educator and writer, and Harriet (Coxe) Bledsoe, descendant of a well-known New Jersey family. From her eleventh year until her marriage she lived in a university community, her father being professor of mathematics, first at the University of Mississippi, and after 1854, at the University of Virginia. In this environment her strong natural interest in drawing, mathematics, and such scientific knowledge as she encountered found helpful encouragement.
Education
Sophia received her early education in a boarding school conducted by her aunt, Margaret Coxe, first in Cincinnati, afterward in Dayton, Ohio; later, she was largely self-taught. In 1876 she took a course in biology at the Johns Hopkins University.
Career
In June 1860 Sophia married James Burton Herrick, a young clergyman from the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, and went with him to his mission parish in New York City. A son and two daughters were born to them. During this period of her life, in the midst of war-time anxieties, she turned for relief to a systematic reading of the newly published works of Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall, bringing to them an extraordinary memory and a remarkably alert intelligence.
In 1868, finding herself unable to accept the social views that were leading her husband into the Oneida Community, Sophia assumed the responsibility of supporting her children and joined forces with her father in Baltimore, where he was conducting a school for girls and editing the Southern Review. She took charge of the school for a time, but soon devoted herself almost entirely to writing. For ten years she contributed regularly to the Southern Review, furnishing a substantial part of its contents. From 1875 to 1878 she acted as its associate editor, carrying it on alone for a year after her father’s death in 1877. Her constant study and tireless industry enabled her to supply the paper not only with comprehensive articles and reviews dealing with many aspects of science, but also with historical, critical, and biographical sketches.
She wrote for Scribner’s Monthly (November 1876 - December 1877) a series of articles, illustrated with her own delicately precise drawings, entitled “Hours with a Microscope. ” In 1879 she accepted a position on the staff of Scribner’s. When Scribner’s became the Century she continued to act as editorial assistant and reader of manuscripts, serving the magazine for twenty-five years with her wide range of knowledge. In the early issues she frequently wrote for the department known as “Home and Society. ” She retired in 1906 and devoted the leisure of her late years to books, art, and travel.
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Interests
Painting was Sophia's favorite recreation, and some of her flower and stilllife canvases were exhibited in New York.
Connections
In June 1860 Sophia married James Burton Herrick, a young clergyman from the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria. A son and two daughters were born to them. The couple separated when Herrick left the ministry to become a member of the Oneida Community.