The Glass Ocean (35 page)

A number of literary, historical, and scientific sources were invaluable to me in the creation of
The Glass Ocean
. These include Philip Henry Gosse,
A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica
; George Henry Young,
A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils Occurring Between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York
; Lyn Barber,
The Heyday of Natural History, 1820–1870
;
Judith Flanders,
Inside the Victorian Home
;
Isobel Armstrong,
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830–1880
; R. H. Dana,
Two Years Before the Mast: and Twenty-four Years After
;
Sidney Waugh,
The Making of Fine Glass
;
Geoffrey Wills,
Victorian Glass
;
and Barbara Stafford and Frances Terpak,
Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Corning Museum of Glass and Cornell University Libraries for allowing me access to the papers, drawings, and works in glass of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, whose lives and art provided the initial inspiration for this book.

With especial thanks to Harry Mathews, Melanie Jackson, Ann Godoff, and to my husband, Peter Gale Nelson, without whose loving support and editorial guidance
The Glass Ocean
could not have been written.