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This is the closest I have been able to get with my heroine!

I have had a fascination with Mary Somerville (1780-1872) ever since reading a letter she wrote to publisher John Murray –

It was a mixture of business and exchanging gossip! Since then I have been researching about her when time has allowed, spending many happy hours in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the National Library of Scotland, and other places around the country. I am writing a full length biography about her, and was honoured that an article I wrote about her for the Dangerous Women project was published on their website on International Women’s Day. https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/03/08/mary-somerville-queen-science/

I have given various talks about Mary, for example at the ‘Women in the Science in the Archives‘ seminar at the Bodleian Library, online for the University of Edinburgh and Previously History festival, among others.

On 18th November 2021 I appeared on an episode of BBC World Service Radio Programme ‘The Forum’ with Prof Jim Secord and Dr Brigitte Stenhouse talking about Mary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1rm3