query: What was Maria Sibylla Merian's first publication?
passage: Maria Sibylla Merian
Merian first made a name for herself as an botanical artist. In 1675 she started to publish a three volume series, each with 12 plates depicting flowers.[22] In 1680 she published Neues Blumenbuch, combining the series.[23]
passage: Marian Engel
Marian Engel's first published novel, "No Clouds of Glory", was published in 1968. Later reissued in the United States as "Sarah's Bastard Notebook" (1974), the work challenged traditional notions of female identity by using a fragmented approach to the subjective narrative that mirrored entries in a notebook.