Agnes Mary Clerke

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Standard Name: Clerke, Agnes Mary
Birth Name: Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC was a self-taught astronomer whose scientific writings won praise and recognition in the later nineteenth century. She published several authoritative texts and contributed to various periodicals. Her writings spanned a wide range of subjects including literature, politics and history as well as various sciences.
Portrait of Agnes Mary Clerke. Black and white portrait of Agnes Mary Clerke. She faces forward with a neutral expression and her hair is short, pulled away from her face. Though the photo appears to be slightly damaged along the bottom, her face and neck are framed and visible. She wears a shirt with a high collar, and what looks like a pendant necklace, though the damage to the photo makes what is on the pendant unclear.
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Black and white photograph of Ellen Mary Clerke. She stands looking away from the camera towards her right, with her left hand on an elegant piece of wooden furniture, her right hand resting in front of her body. Her hair is up, with curls close to her head, and she wears a dark dress with cascades of lace at the cuffs and collar.
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death Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC died of bronchitis in South Kensington after being ill a short time; her sister survived her by less than a year.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.
Family and Intimate relationships Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC and her sister, Agnes Mary Clerke , were lifelong companions.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.
Agnes became a noted writer on astronomy, who besides publishing books of her own contributed entries on astronomers for the Dictionary of National Biography...
Reception Caroline Herschel
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...
Residence Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC and her sister lived in Italy, providing a foundation for Ellen's later work as a translator of Italian verse.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Residence Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC , with her mother and sister , met Liszt in Rome.
This may, however, have happened during the previous spring, 1868.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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Residence Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC , with her mother and sister , returned to England and settled in London.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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Textual Production Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC published two pamphlets, about astronomy (her sister 's subject), entitled Jupiter and His System and The Planet Venus.
The Feminist Companion gives these titles erroneously.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897.
British Library Catalogue.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Textual Production Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC , like her sister Agnes , was among the first five women to contribute articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, though where Agnes researched and wrote almost sixty entries, Ellen was responsible for only three.
Weitzenhoffer, Kenneth. “The Prolific Pen of Agnes Clerke”. Sky and Telescope, No. 3, pp. 211 - 12.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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