Item 353878Autograph letter signed, "Maria", to Mrs. Gay[?], on social matters, seeing Ida, meeting with Mrs. Shaw, the marriage of her...
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Nantucket: "Tuesday" [September 1854]. "The most prominent woman professor ... and the first real 'scientist' since Jane Colden in the 1750s, in that she published at least seven scientific articles, was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, certainly the most important woman scientist in America in the nineteenth century. Her election to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed, "Maria", to Mrs. Gay[?], on social matters, seeing Ida, meeting with Mrs. Shaw, the marriage of her sister Phebe, etc Add to Wish List
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