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Herschel observed that nothing beyond the name in the title-page. . . remind[s] us of its coming from a female hand, and that his response to Somerville's text was one of unfeigned delight and...

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...

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

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...

Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin , John Doran , Jane Williams —tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics. More disappointingly, a feminist literary historian of the early...

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