Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | 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. Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 65 |
Literary responses | Margaret Bryan | MB
's work met with approval and admiration from scientist Charles Hutton
. Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. 177 |
Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | 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. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 3, pp. 301 - 17. 305 |
Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | 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... |
Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | 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. Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 113 |
Publishing | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | 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... |
Reception | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Ann B. Shteir
, though she admires MEJ
's learning and her power of exposition, calls the book overly long and relentlessly earnest. Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 111 Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 3, pp. 301 - 17. 315 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | |
Textual Production | Priscilla Wakefield | 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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | 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... |
Textual Production | Frances Jacson | 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 |
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