Millicent Franks was born in Durban, Natal Colony on 6 October 1886. She was assistant to J Medley Wood (1827-1915) at the Natal Herbarium at the time that he was undertaking his ambitious six-volume study and publication 'Natal Plants'. The first volume rolled off the press of Bennet and Davis of Durban in 1898. This was the first entirely locally written, illustrated lithographed and printed botanical work on the flora of a South African geographical region. Frieda Lauth (1879-1949) and Walter Haygarth (1862-1950) had provided the bulk of the initial artwork with most of what followed from 1901 by the hand of Millicent Franks. She travelled to Kew where she spent three months drawing plates for the publication. The publication was terminated with Volume 6 in 1912. She married Howard Flanders in 1915 and spent the last years of her life settled in Petersfield, Hants. UK, where she is buried.
References
Rourke, John. 2001. Beauty in truth: botanical art in southern Africa - a brief historical perspective. in Arnold Marion (Ed.) South African Botanical Art. Peeling Back the petals. Vlaeberg: Fernwood press pp27-66, see pp48-49.
Glen, HF & Germishuizen, G (compilers). 2010. Botanical Explorations of southern Africa. (2nd Edition) Strelizia 26. Pretoria: SANBI. p179
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