Abstract
IT would have been a lasting blot upon the biographers of our time if such an illustrious woman as Mary Somerville—a woman unique, or almost unique from one point of view, though so beautifully womanly from others—had teen allowed to pass from among us without a satisfactory memorial of her characteristic thoughts, conversation, and domestic life.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, with Selections from her Correspondence.
By her daughter, Martha Somerville. (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1873.)
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, with Selections from her Correspondence . Nature 9, 417–418 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009417a0
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