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Rosemary Hill: Unhappy Ever After, 21 June 2018
In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter
by Miranda Seymour.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £25, March 2018,978 1 4711 3857 7 Show More
by Miranda Seymour.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £25, March 2018,
Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice.
Bodleian, 128 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 85124 488 1 Show More
by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice.
Bodleian, 128 pp., £20, April 2018,
“... exaggerated as anachronistic. In their brief, well-illustrated and lucid account of her career, Hollings, Martin and Rice all firmly distance themselves from any aspirations to ‘relevance’ as might be implied by the book’s presentation, while Seymour, who gives a less detailed account of the mathematics, offers an illuminating view of the ... ”