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, 1987, pp. 208 - 16.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Jackie Kay | JK
was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre
on 24 April 2014 as a... |
| Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
's publisher, John Murray
, commissioned Thomas Phillips
to paint her portrait; this picture now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 141 |
| Reception | Dora Carrington | She was very pleased with her model and with her rendering: I was completely overcome by her grandeur, and wit. I am painting her against the bookcase sitting full length in a chair, in a... |
| Reception | Muriel Spark | In about 1984 the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
asked MS
to sit for her portrait for their collection, by Sandy Moffat
. Of the resulting painting MS
says: I was just a model for The... |
| Textual Production | Maud Sulter | The Scottish National Portrait Gallery
featured MS
's exhibition entitled Jeanne Duval
: a Melodrama, and published at Edinburgh her related text bearing the same title. British Library Catalogue. Donald, Ann. “Tracing the thin black line”. Scotsman.com: Scotland on Sunday. |
| Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
, the Tate Gallery
, the Slade School of Art
, and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries... |
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