146:, which was similarly framed around a travel narrative. The flowers in both books are painted in a lively, impressionistic style without great attention to scientific detail. Part of the appeal of Thayer's books stemmed from the first-person, diaristic style she used to recount her camping trips and mild adventures in pursuit of unusual flowers in sometimes rugged terrain. In her book on Colorado wild flowers, Thayer was the first person to report that
173:, rather than on her own drawings. While these claims were strongly contested by people who had actually accompanied Thayer on her trips and seen her at work, it emerged that Thayer had bought some flower studies from Hill and may have borrowed some compositional elements from Hill's work. There was no lawsuit, however, so the extent of Thayer's borrowing from Hill was never fully settled. In 1889, Thayer published a new edition of
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Broadway in New York. A portrait of her as a very young child (ca. 1843) by the painter
208:(1890?), though written by an E.H. Thayer, is apparently not her work. She stated that the author of that novel had used her initials as well as some of her characters in order to market it, falsely, as "Mrs Thayer's new book".
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