Originally published in 1879. MEMOIR AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL contains the letters and diaries of the celebrated astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), edited by her niece, Mary Herschel. Caroline was born in Hanover to a musician father and an illiterate mother who did not want her daughter to be educated. However Caroline's brother William, an organist employed in Bath, persuaded their mother to allow Caroline to join him there. She left for England in 1772 to live with William, to whom she remained devoted all of her life. In Bath, William turned towards...
Originally published in 1879. MEMOIR AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL contains the letters and diaries of the celebrated astronomer...
