Mary Anne Theresa Whitby was an English writer, landowner, and artist. She became an authority on the cultivation of silkworms, and in the 1830s reintroduced sericulture to the United Kingdom. During the 1840s, she corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin about silkworms, conducting breeding experiments to help develop his theories of natural selection.
- Occupation
- writer, zoologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- December 18, 1783
- Died
- August 5, 1850
