"Lucy was, in DeLatte's words, 'extraordinarily independent'. She was no feminist.... Yet Lucy Bakewell Audubon had one advantage over many other women of her time: she knew precisely what she wanted. As often happens to good biographers, DeLatte herself seems to take on some...
Traces the life of the English-born wife of American naturalist John J. Audubon, and shows her strength in supporting and binding their family together enabled her husband to complete his work.