Inmates of My House and Garden

After her previous books received a great reception, Eliza Brightwen Elder (1830 – 1906), a Scottish naturalist and author, published Inmates of my House and Garden in 1895, considered her masterwork. The work was the third collection of personal studies of natural history. The content includes Lemurs, Mungo, Squirrels, The Cork Moth, and many more.

Contents include:

Lemurs

Tommy and Pearlie

Mungo

Squirrels

Fairy

Asnapper

Willow-wrens

Tame Doves

Feeding Birds

Starving Tortoises

Teaching Children

Studying Nature

Insect Observation

Solitary Bees and Wasps

Drone Flies

The Praying Mantis

The Cork Moth

The Clothes Moth

The Death-watch

Cheese-mites and Flies

Lepismæ

Pot-pourri

A Water Bouquet

Artistic Pithwork