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Margaret, Lady Herschel ( née Brodie Stewart; 1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in Cape Colony, she and her husband made over a hundred botanical paintings of wild flowers, which they brought back to Europe for study. Her husband was one of the leading scientists of Victorian Britain . Life.
1 de ene. de 2022 · For John Herschel’swife, Margaret Brodie Stewart (later Herschel), the purpose of her academic education seems to have been primarily to help her be a good, intellectually thorough, evangelical, proselytising Christian. Margaret was the youngest daughter of an evangelical minister of the Scottish church called Alexander Stewart.
- Emily Winterburn
Margaret Brodie Stewart became Lady Margaret Herschel (1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in South Africa, she and her husband made over a hundred botanical paintings of wild flowers, which they brought back to Europe for study.
Arranged alphabetically by name, this series includes manuscripts, correspondence, personal records and other documents for Alexander Stewart Herschel, Isabella Herschel, John Herschel (son of Sir John), Julia Mary Herschel, Lady Margaret Herschel, Margaret Louisa Herschel, Mary Pitt Herschel, Sir William James Herschel, and other or ...
13 de abr. de 2015 · Her nephew's wife, Margaret Brodie Herschel (née Stewart) was intensely interested in her famous astronomer aunt and quizzed her about her life to such an extent that Caroline declared Margaret to have been the impetus behind her decision to write her autobiography.
- Emily Winterburn
- 2015
7 de ene. de 2017 · LibriVox recording of Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel by Margaret Herschel. Read in English by Kevin Green. For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century.
John Frederick William Herschel, born at Slough, England, on March 7, 1792, became a British scientist of large reputation across many fields, including especially astronomy, photography, and natural philosophy. Herschel also became head of a large household, fathering 12 children with his wife, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel (married 1829).
