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Hertha Ayrton
Standard Name: Ayrton, Hertha
Used Form: Hertha Ayrton (born Sarah Marks)
Used Form: Phoebe Sarah Marks
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Celia Moss | This niece of CM
's, who studied with her aunt Marion Hartog, later became Hertha Ayrton
, a suffragist and distinguished scientist. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She kept her name, considering it the one she had earned and having discovered there was no legal necessity to change it, but added Bodichon as a nod to social convention. She and her husband... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
set her name to the earliest of her several letters to the Times, this one together with Hertha Ayrton
and Mary Augusta Ward
, as an effort to raise money for a building... |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Her contributions include descriptive pieces (on, for instance, the Florence ghetto, which she presents as thronged with ghosts) and analytical essays on, for instance, our national free-masonry of wit; our family joke: Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 126 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | ES
published a 300-page biography of a woman who had achieved eminence as a physicist: Hertha Ayrton
, 1854-1923, A Memoir. It was written at the request of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1202 (5 March 1926): 235 Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 149-50 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
23 March 1899: The first paper presented to the Institution...
Building item
23 March 1899
The first paper presented to the Institution of Electrical Engineers
(IEE) by a woman was read by Hertha Ayrton
, who was later admitted as the Institution's first female member.
1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...
Building item
1904
The first scientific paper read by a woman for the Royal Society
was delivered by Hertha Ayrton
.
11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...
Building item
11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison
of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
1913: The Institute of Electrical Engineers elected...
National or international item
1913
The Institute of Electrical Engineers
elected Hertha Ayrton
as its first woman member.
Texts
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