Sir John Frederick William Herschel

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.

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

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...

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. .

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...