Amelia Griffiths features in a chapter of Seaweed in the Kitchen entitled The Seaweed Sisterhood. She is one of my favourite Victorian Seaweed Ladies. Of her interest in seaweed, she writes:
' It occupied the small amount of leisure from domestic occupation and amused a mind depressed by domestic misfortune.'
Read more about the Queen of Algologists in Science and Nature Writing by Philip Strange
'There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.’ Lord Byron
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