Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville, Dorothy McMillan

Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville, Dorothy McMillan

196 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

autobiography biography memoir informative medium-paced

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Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson’s captains, and in common with most girls of her time and station she was given the kind of education which prizes gentility over ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself al...

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