Ann B. Shteir

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir raises the question whether Rowden, in accommodating scientific study to the bounds prescribed by antifeminist practice, is herself part of the backlash. Rowden, however, aimed to prevent the banishment...

MB 's work met with approval and admiration from scientist Charles Hutton . Her reputation as a science writer no doubt accounted for the mistaken attribution to her of the eighth edition of Jane Marcet

Scholar Ann B. Shteir finds MEJ better versed in her subject, writing at a higher level, than some others who participated with her in the same wave of women's science writing.

Ann B. Shteir considers that the confident tone and command of materialhere anticipate Mary Somerville 's much more advanced scientific expositions of the 1830s, but that again the tone did not perfectly match the...

Ann B. Shteir finds that this book's blend of first-person experimental results with scientific discussion has few counterparts among botanical writings by women.

Her great-nephew suggested that she wrote this book four years before it appeared. The first edition (with two coloured plates and plans for flowerbeds) mentioned her address (Somersal Hall) as well as her...

Ann B. Shteir , though she admires MEJ 's learning and her power of exposition, calls the book overly long and relentlessly earnest. She also singles out as deeply jarring a passage in...

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir thinks AS may be the author of The Backwardness of the Spring Accounted For, a poem written into a copy of Linnaeus 's A System of Vegetables, 1783...

PW argued in her introduction that everything hitherto published on the subject of botany was too expensive, as well as too diffuse and scientific for young people, so that there was a place for a...

MA published with Natural Science of Canada at Toronto in 1977 a book of early nineteenth-century history: Days of the Rebels, 1815-1840, in a series called Canada's Illustrated Heritage. Her Frank Gerstein lectures...

FJ began keeping a diary in 1790 and continued it until October 1837. The later volumes are now at Lancashire Record Office , while of earlier ones only excerpts transcribed by her great-nephew Charles Roger Jacson