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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Friends, Associates
Emily Shirreff
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
Friends, Associates
Maria Grey
The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist
Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir
Charles Lyell
, and Sir
William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among...
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Emily Shirreff
Restored for the moment to health,
ES
, with her sister
Maria Grey
, attended a meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science
at
Nottingham
in 1866. There they acted as hostesses...
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