Her selection of subjects is interesting and original. Her six are the English scholar and translator Elizabeth Carter
, the Hanoverian (English by adoption) astronomer Caroline Herschel
, the Dutch explorer of Africa Alexandrine Tinné
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9 January 1862: Alexandrine P. F. Tinné, a Dutch heiress,...
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9 January 1862
Alexandrine P. F. Tinné
, a Dutch heiress, left Cairo with her mother and aunt and began an ascent of the White Nile.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.