Sir John Frederick William Herschel

AA was a close friend of Sir John Herschel (another photographic pioneer) and his daughters. The idea of a female scientist was not strange to this family, since Sir John was the nephew of the...

AA also continued into her forties her self-education in the new subject of photography. In 1841 she was experimenting with camera work as developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in the form of photograms produced...

It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

In 1845 AAB collaborated with John Crosse on an article for the Westminster Review about Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers . (Before Chambers's authorship was known, there was speculation that...

In The Herschels and Modern Astronomy she focuses on what she presents as the devoted and almost heroic work of William Herschel and his son Sir John . In relating the achievements of Caroline Herschel

The same year that she began, for her nephew's wife, writing about herself, she also embarked another memoir, entitled History of the Herschels, which remained unfinished. In both these memoirs the pages on the...

In the beginning CH 's reputation was usually judged more as that of a woman and a sister than as that of a scientist. Frances Burney 's admiration and delight was directed at her as...

CH announced in a letter from Hanover to her nephew John in England the completion of her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae.

Her nephew John, born in 1792, grew up to become Sir John Herschel , an astronomer perhaps as famous as his father (let alone his aunt). She helped him by recording the first sweeps that...

Astronomical observation being impossible in the city, CH worked at her papers from the past, this time, at her nephew John 's request, compiling her catalogue of nebulae. When her nephew set out for the...

She had begun working on this, at John 's behest, about a year after her return to Hanover. In August 1823 it was still at the planning stage. A year later she was hard at work.

During her last years in HanoverCH wrote many letters that survive and many writings in personal biography, autobiography and family history. Her own early Day-Books and Sweep-Books were pressed into service for these later...

As early as May 1827 her nephew John read her autobiographical account of her discovery years, and responded that she underestimated her own part in her joint enterprise with William.

ES 's circle of friends included Sir William Grove (inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville , lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley , astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy , Sir John Herschel