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Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872)

Short name Mary Fairfax Somerville
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Birth name Fairfax Somerville
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Date of birth 1780
Date of death 1872
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Place of birth Scotland
Place of death Napoli
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Education Educated at home, School education
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Mary Fairfax Somerville was ...
related to Lovelace, Ada King
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On the connexion of the physical sciences 5 0
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For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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*Mention in Art. in De Gids Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1856 -
Engelske Forfatterinder (English Authoresses) [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1858 comments on person
*art. on Mary Somerville in Huisvrouw Marie Henriëtte Koorders - Boeke 1877 -
Female Suffrage La Ramée, Maria Louise de 1886 -
Märkvärdiga qvinnor. Serie 1, Utländska qvinnor. Remarkable women. Series 1, Foreign women Fries, Ellen 1890 is biography of
The New Woman La Ramée, Maria Louise de 1894 -
Vzgoja deklet The education of girls Nadlišek Bartol, Marica 1901 -

Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville : science, illumination, and the female mind. Cambridge, 2001.

She lived in England and Italy