Maria Frances Ann Morris

Maria Frances Ann Morris

Maria Frances Ann Morris (February 12, 1813 – October 28, 1875) was a teacher, artist and poet in Nova Scotia.

She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Captain Guy Morris and Sibylla Amelia Maria Sophia Leggett. Morris was a descendent of Charles Morris. She received training in art at Dalhousie College from an American W. H. Jones and in Halifax from Professor L'Estrange, an English artist. Morris operated a number of schools which taught drawing and painting to young women. In 1840, She married Garret Trafalgar Nelson Miller, the son of Garrett Miller and Catherine Pernette, who was the daughter of Joseph Pernette. Morris published several series of botanical lithographs: Wildflowers of Nova Scotia, with one series in 1839 to 1840 and a second series in 1853, Wild flowers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1866 and Wildflowers of British North America in 1867. A copy of the botanical paintings which appeared in these works appeared at the Universal Exposition of 1867 in Paris. In 1856, she published a volume of poetry Metrical musings with her sister Catherine in 1856. She died in Halifax at the age of 62.

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