Michael Faraday

MS had set out to determine whether the chemical rays of the sun exhibited behaviour analogous to light rays and caloforic rays when passing through a range of solid materials. Using Michael Faraday 's light-sensitive...

As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham , Michael Faraday , James Forbes

The recent revival of interest in women's writing has done something for JM 's reputation, though it has to contend with such historical ignorance as the bookseller's catalogue quoted above. The strongest recent boost to...

The Literary Review noted that so far as it knew, this was the first work any thing like a system of chemistry to be written by a lady. Although it maintained a masculinist stance...

Lady Byron employed a number of governesses to educate the young AAB at their various country homes. From the age of five Ada received full-time instruction in arithmetic, grammar, spelling, reading, music, geography, drawing, and...

AAB remained close friends with Mary Somerville's family, and particularly with her eldest son by her first marriage, Woronzow Greig , for the rest of her life. Somerville not only fostered Ada's mathematical aptitude, but...

CFC had a large and diverse group of friends and acquaintances who shared her multitude of interests. Some were scientists, like Michael Faraday ; others were scholars, such as Sismondi and the orientalist Samuel Birch

JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan ,

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin