Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to Princess Caroline, and later Prince Albert
and Queen Victoria
), a descendent of the Wedgwood family and cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell
...
Literary responses
Mary Somerville
The Quarterly's review by Henry Holland
praised MS
's delightful volumeOn the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Literary responses
Mary Somerville
Physical Geography was widely used, as a comprehensive and useful textbook, in schools and universities for some fifty years after its publication. In anticipating a regional rather than national or political approach to geography, it...
Textual Production
Anne Marsh
AM
wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play...
Textual Production
Mary Somerville
As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes
Timeline
May 1828: French chemist Richard Chenevix experimented...
Building item
May 1828
French chemist Richard Chenevix
experimented with animal magnetism on peasants during a visit to Ireland.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.