Martha Somerville

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Standard Name: Somerville, Martha,, 1815 - 1879

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Reception Mary Somerville
Personal Recollections deals at length with the people MS knew, rather than with her intellectual development or her scientific work. Large portions about the representation of science, in fact, were removed at the suggestion of...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC contributed hugely to the compilation, revision, and editing of Martha Somerville 's Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville with Selections from her Correspondence, 1873, and also promoted it...
Textual Production Mary Somerville
In her eighty-ninth year MS composed a lively autobiography which was heavily edited for publication by her daughter Martha . Her friend and fellow author Frances Power Cobbe also helped with the editing process.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, John Murray, 1873.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.