The Life of Mary Anning

Year 6 have been completing biographies based on the life of Mary Anning. We have found some interesting facts and anecdotes about her life.

Mary Anning's family lived in Lyme Regis and sold 'curiosities' which they Cole

Letter from the beach, on a stall on the seafront.

Mary had a lucky escape when she was a baby, in a thunderstorm, a woman holding Mary was struck by lightening at a fair. The woman holding her died, luckliy Mary survived. 

She was the inspiration for the well-known tongue twister 'She sells seashells on the seashore', which was written by Terry Sullivan in 1908.

In 1811' over a period of months Mary Painstakingly uncovered a near complete skeleton of a 'crocodile'. The specimen was later named Ichthyosaurus.