Davies, Emily

The case for admitting Garrett was put to the Senate meeting of 9 April 1862. The vote was close by 7 votes to 6, the resolution was adopted that the Senate found no reason to doubt the validity of Counsel s opinion given in the case of Miss Jessie Meriton White in 1856. Following this setback, Emily Davies,... 

Bennett, D. (1990). Emily Davies and the Liberation of Women 1830-1921. Andre Deutsch, London. 

Conversations on Chemistry is a delightful interplay between a Mrs. B. (sometimes referred to as Mrs. Bryan ) and Caroline and Emily (ages 13 to 15). Its coverage of chemical principles, while accessible, is not at all superficial, and Mrs. Marcet updated her own editions by including the latest work of her correspondent Davy and other prominent chemists. Here is a selection found on pages 198-199 of the 1814 American edition. 

Mieroanalyses reported in this paper were performed by Miss Emily Davis, Miss Rachel ICopel, and by the Clark Microanalytical Laboratories, Urbana, Illinois. 

Marcet had become knowledgeable in the subject by the same method she used in teaching conversation—conversations with her husband, a London physician and chemist, and friends, Berzelius, Davy, and other notables of the scientific community. In Marcet s book conversations were among a fictitious Mrs. B and her pupils Emily and Caroline. This style was evidently effective because the book went through 16 editions and an estimated l60,000 copies were sold in the United States before 1853.Its influence on Michael Faraday can be read in his own words Mrs. Marcet s Conversations on Chemistry. .. gave me my foundation in that science. ... 

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