Vanessa (butterfly) poem "Cadenus and Vanessa," which is the source of the woman's name Vanessa. In the poem Vanessa is called a "nymph" eleven times, and the genus is closely related to the previously-named genus Nymphalis. Though the name has been suggested to be a variant of "Phanessa", from the name of an Ancient Greek deity, this is unlikely. The name of the deity is actually not "Phanessa" but Phanes. Johan Christian Fabricius, the entomologist who named this genus, normally used the original forms of the names of classical divinities when he created new scientific names. North American species in the genus
Vanessa O'Loughlin Vanessa O'Loughlin Vanessa O’Loughlin (Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin) is an Irish author, and literary agent. In 2006, O'Loughlin moved from a career in event management to self-employment, founding Inkwell Writers Workshops to run fiction-writing workshops taught by bestselling published writers. During the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn, the company was renamed The Inkwell Group and became a publishing consultancy, assisting new writers to move forward with their careers. O'Loughlin publishes romantic fiction as "Vanessa Fox," and crime fiction as "Sam Blake." In 2015 the Bonnier Twenty7 signed O'Loughlin to write a three book series of crime novels featuring detective Cat Connolly and