QUIET REVOLUTION OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL (ASTRONOMY) (HB)

Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788 to 1797 - the decade in which she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. In this biography, historian Dr Emily Winterburn pieces together a detailed account of that time from letters, reminiscences and museum objects. What emerges is a new side to history’s ‘most admirable lady astronomer’.