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Publishing | Mary Somerville | The results of MS
's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society
by William Somerville
; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 213 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stewart | While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh
's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the... |
Travel | Marie Stopes | Her academic career took her almost around the world. First she went to Japan for two years, from 1907, to be attached to the University of Tokyo
on a research grant from the Royal Society |
Residence | Elizabeth Tollet | During Elizabeth's mother's lifetime the Tollet family lived at York Buildings, near Whitehall Palace, London, where George Tollet also probably had his office. The buildings were a centre of intellectual life: a select group... |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin
, John Doran
, Jane Williams
—tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 63 |
Occupation | Anna Williams | When she was first in London AW
found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams |
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