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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.
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland (now in Cumbria), [1] part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District.
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 ...
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]
Book Ninth: Residence in France 1799–1805 "Even as a river,--partly (it might seem)" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Tenth: Residence in France (continued) 1799–1805 "It was a beautiful and silent day" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Eleventh: France (concluded) 1799–1805
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
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]