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Isabella Fenwick (1783 – 1856) was a 19th-century British amanuensis (secretary), and a confidante, advisor, and friend of William Wordsworth and his family in his later years. [1] She is the scribe behind the Fenwick Notes , [ 1 ] an autobiographical and poetic commentary Wordsworth dictated to her over a six-month period between January and ...
Cynthia Morgan St. John (née, Morgan; October 11, 1852 – August 10, 1919) was an American Wordsworthian, book collector, and author. [1] In her day, she owned the largest and most valuable Wordsworth library in the U.S. [2] [3] she was engaged in collecting books for 40 years.
Dr Louise Holliday is the first woman to winter in Antarctica for the Australian Antarctic Program serving as medical officer at Davis station. [29] 1983. First British woman, Janet Thomson, joins the British Antarctic Survey, and becomes the first British woman on Antarctica. [33]
Bush, W. M. - Antarctica and International Law: A Collection of Inter-state and National Documents. [24] [25] Byrd, Richard Evelyn - Alone: the classic polar adventure. [26] Caesar, Adrian - The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson, 1911–1913. [27] Cassidy, William A. – Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: A Personal ...
In 1991 In-Young Ahn was the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station) and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [78] There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77]
Lois Jones (1935–2000), geochemist, led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969; Ruth Kelley, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957; Amy Leventer (graduated 1982), marine biologist, micropaleontologist; Diane McKnight (born 1953), environmental engineer, educator, editor
Wordsworth wrote a sonnet about them, "To the Lady E.B and the Hon. Miss P". [9] Anna Seward wrote about them in her 1796 poem, "Llangollen Vale", in which she associates them with "chaste provinciality". [9] The story of the two women are the subject of a chapter of Colette's 1932 book, The Pure and the Impure. [18]
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement .