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A picture-book biography celebrating the life and work of the first professional female astronomer, whose findings are still used by space agencies today. Born in 1750 in Germany, Caroline Herschel had a difficult childhood--she was physically marred by both smallpox and typhus, and treated as a maid by her own parents. Her life took a wonderful turn when her brother, William, took her with him to England. Together, the siblings built a telescope...
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From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right.
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
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In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now, gone blind from staring at...
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