Ellen Mary Clerke(1840-2 March1906) was an author, journalist, poet and popular science writer in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, in Ireland. She wrote for the London Tablet, and also spent much time in Italy
Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907), also a writer on astronomy, was her sister.
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Fable and Song in Italy (1899), essays and verse translations.
Mary's regalia of power endowed erotic interactions in which a beautiful woman submitted, resigned herself or despaired with glamorized importance.
Mary Cisar's "Madame Roland and the Grammar of Female Sainthood" erases what Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Phlippon (born 1754, guillotined 1793) turned to in order to lead a life at odds with her era's mores and customs: the power of an intensely rebellious and non-religious private spiritual life.
Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski [1967] 237-65), Fletcher argues that Smith's work was disparaged and then ignored because she was a political radical who dared non-submissively to present her real suffering and weaknesses before the public.
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