found: Schaaf, Larry J. Sun gardens : cyanotypes by Anna Atkins, 2018:pages 76-77, 80 (caption: "'Dear as a sister': the enigmatic Anne Dixon"; "Anne Austen was born in Cranbrook, Kent ... she was baptized on 27 July 1799 ... Most of her upbringing was by her father's 'dear old friend and relation' John George Children [father of Anna Atkins] ... Anne was a second cousin to the ... novelist Jane Austen ... In 1837, Anne married Henry Dixon, vicar of St. Andrew's Church in the village of Ferring in Sussex ... The Childrens, Atkinses, and Dixons became an even more close-knit family ... About the only tangible remains of Anne Dixon's life are her signature on her marriage certificate, a recently discovered portrait ... and a fragment of a tombstone in Ferring plaintively retaining only 'wife of the above.' This meager testimony, however, is enhanced considerably by her association with some of the finest photograms produced as a result of Anna Atkins's interest. These are incorporated in four splendid presentation albums, all produced after the main body of [Atkins' work] British algae ... It may never be possible to know whether some of the later prints are by Atkins, by Dixon, or by both working together. The last possibility seems most likely. The first direct mention of Anne Dixon in connection with botany ... is in an 1851 letter from Children to Sir William Hooker ... in which it is clear that Anne and Anna had already been collecting plants together for some time ... Anne would have followed the progress of British algae and may well have lent a hand in its production from time to time ... On 20 March 1865 [sic, for 1864] Anne Dixon died ... at Ferring vicarage") page 77 (image of "Anne Dixon's broken gravestone at Ferring"; inscription reads "Wife of the abo[ve]. Died March 20th, 1864. Aged 64")
found: The J. Paul Getty Museum website, December 18, 2020(Anne Dixon, 1799-1877 [sic], photographer; born Cranbrook, Kent, England; died Ferring vicarage, England; "Anne Dixon, neé Austen, was a close childhood friend, an 'almost sister,' of Anna Atkins, and a second, distant cousin of the novelist Jane Austen. Dixon's mother died in 1811, and her father was an army major stationed in Portugal, so Dixon was raised largely by Atkins's father. Interested in botany, Dixon joined Atkins in collecting plant specimens, and the two spent the summer of 1852 together while Atkins was in mourning after her father's death. Dixon made cyanotypes of botanical specimens, and she presented an album of ferns to her nephew, Henry Dixon, who was interested in botany. Anne Dixon died of cancer at age sixty-four") - https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3092/anne-dixon-british-1799-1877/ found: Union list of artist names online, December 24, 2020(Dixon, Anne (British photographer, 1799-1877 [sic]))
found: Schaaf, Larry J. "Atkins (née Children), Anna (1799-1871)," in Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004, accessed online December 25, 2020(Anna Atkins was a sensitive photographer who continued after [British algae] to create cyanotypes of other natural objects, largely for their aesthetic value, and sometimes in conjunction with Anne Dixon (née Austen) (1800 [sic]-1864), a close childhood friend, the wife of a vicar in Sussex")
found: Schaaf, Larry J. "Atkins (née Children), Anna," in Grove art online, 2003, updated and revised, 20 January 2016; accessed online December 25, 2020, via Oxford art online("In the early 1850s, collaborating with Anne Dixon (1799-1864), Atkins turned to creative expression with cyanotype photograms")
found: Bissell, Gerhard. "Atkins, Anna," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, v. 1, 2005, accessed online, December 25, 2020(In the early 1850s, Atkins collaborated with her childhood friend Anne Dixon, née Austen (born 1799, died 1864) on works such as the album Cyanotypes of British and foreign ferns (from 1853))
found: photographydatabase.org, December 25, 2020(Dixon, Anne; life dates: 1799-1864; birth place: England, Kent, Cranbrook; death place: England, Ferring Vicarage; notes: "An amateur associate of Anna Atkins")
found: Ancestry Library Edition, December 25, 2020:(Sussex, Ferring, house no. 33, night of 30 March 1851: Henry Dixon, head, vicar of Ferring; Ann [Dixon], wife, age 51, born Kent, Cranbrook) England & Wales, National probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858-1995 (in "Wills. 1868": "Dixon, Anne. 28 December: The will of Anne Dixon (wife of the Reverend Henry Dixon, clerk) late of Ferring vicarage near Worthing in the county of Sussex deceased who died 20 March 1864 at Ferring vicarage aforesaid was proved ...")
