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Title: Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville

Author: Mary Somerville

Release Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #27747]

Language: English

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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS,

FROM EARLY LIFE TO OLD AGE,

OF

MARY SOMERVILLE.

WITH

Selections from her Correspondence.

BY HER DAUGHTER, MARTHA SOMERVILLE.

FIFTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,
1874.

[_The Right of Translation is reserved._]

WORKS BY MRS. SOMERVILLE.

* * * * *

THE MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS. 8vo. 1831.

THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. _9th Edition._ Post 8vo. 9_s._
1858.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. _6th Edition._ Post 8vo. 9_s._ 1870.

MOLECULAR AND MICROSCOPIC SCIENCE. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 21_s._ 1869.

[Transcriber's Note: commentary by the author, with the exception of her
opening and closing words are enclosed in square brackets. In the original
text, only an open square bracket was used.]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

INTRODUCTION--PARENTAGE--LIFE IN SCOTLAND IN THE LAST
CENTURY--EARLY EDUCATION--SCHOOL 1

CHAPTER II.

FREEDOM--RELIGIOUS EDUCATION--JEDBURGH 24

CHAPTER III.

EDINBURGH--YOUTHFUL STUDIES AND AMUSEMENTS--POLITICS--THE
THEATRES OF THE TIME 41

CHAPTER IV.

EDINBURGH SUPPER PARTIES--TOUR IN THE HIGHLANDS--MUTINY
IN THE FLEET--BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN 61

CHAPTER V.

FIRST MARRIAGE (1804)--WIDOWHOOD--STUDIES--SECOND MARRIAGE 73

CHAPTER VI.