Contacting the museum at Lyme Regis
After not hearing anything back from the national history museums. Ava suggested that I contact the museum at Lyme Regis. I was put in touch with Richard the Volunteer Curatorial & Research Assistant who was very helpful. I asked him about the letters and if the museum had any.
Richard said
"the only true images of her are the two similar paintings in a green coat with Lyme Bay in the background. An oil is at the NHM in London on display with her first ichthyosaur and plesiosaur and a pastel is on display at the Geological Society at Burlington House in Piccadilly." In addition to this he also provided us with a folder full of Mary Annings letters and her only 2 true portraits. He also recommended reading Tracey Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures
Script
I started writing the script this week. We had to main ideas, the first being poetry, in the vain of the tong twister inspired buy Anning. she sells sea sells by the sea sure. However, Dotty pointed out that that would be more suitable for a younger audience. which is not what we are going for. So I suggested that we write it as though it was one of her letters. The idea when down well with the group and dotty. I wrote it in what I imagined people to sound like in 1800's British.
Mandy ad
I also created an ad on Mandy.com to find a voice actor to be the voice of our Mary Annings. We initially thought that we would need a posh english, received pronunciation accent. However, after discussing it with Dotty we decided a Dorset accent would be more appropriate.
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