Author:Mary Fairfax Somerville

Mary Fairfax Somerville
(1780–1872)

Mary Fairfax Somerville

Works

• The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum (1825)
• "On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1826)
• Mechanism of the Heavens (transcription project) (1830)
• A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens (1832)
• On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (ten editions, first published 1834): (transcription project) (1834); 1871 edition, better quality scans than other IA copies: (external scan)
• Physical Geography vol 1, (external scan) (1848)
• Molecular and Microscopic Science vol 1, vol 2 (1869)
• Cookery and domestic economy: containing upwards of one thousand carefully tested recipes, expressed in simple terms suitable for every-day life (external scan)
• Personal recollections, from early life to old age, of Mary Somerville. With selections from her correspondence, (1873; 1874) with Martha Somerville (London, 1873: (external scan); London, 1874: Project Gutenberg, (external scan); Boston, 1874: (external scan), (external scan), (external scan)) (transcription project)

Works about Somerville

• Mrs. Somerville (1836) in Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The English Bijou Almanacks, 1836-1839
• "Mrs Mary Somerville" in The Leisure Hour, Number 1032, 7 October 1871
• Light science for leisure hours, second series: familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. with a sketch of the life of Mary Somerville by Richard Anthony Proctor), 1837-1888; 1873 (external scan)
• Mrs. Somerville and Mary Carpenter by Sarah Sharp Heaton Hamer, 1839-1927 (1887) (external scan)
• Some eminent women of our times: short biographical sketches by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929, (1889) (external scan)
• Chapter 1 of Women Worth Emulating by Clara L. Balfour, 1877
• "Somerville, Mary," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Somerville, Mary," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sketch of Mary Somerville" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (May 1884)
• Chapter VII of Some famous Women by Louise Creighton, 1909 (external scan)
• "Somerville, Mrs. Mary," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)