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“In Byron’s Wake”, Miranda Seymour

This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu. Scientist and Feminist. Jo Willett

This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was published this year. Nothing specific was said about the pandemic, but the obvious message is that it is time to more broadly understand her role in the adoption of inoculation as a medical technology.
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Sculptor’s Daughter. Tove Jansson

I bought this book in 1978 and reread it after I finished my bio of Tove. Her father was a sculptor, Viktor Janssen, and her mother, “Ham”, an artist. It is a quick read-about 2 hours-and consists of short vignettes written from a child’s point of view.
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THE ENTRÉE

When I finished my PhD in 1979, my next career step was to do a postdoc. I wanted to go to the Huge Lab in Strasbourg, since it was the most high-profile lab in Europe at the time.
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The Shape Of Things To Come…

After I finished my PhD, I did a postdoc in Strasbourg, during the years 1980-81.
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The Doctor Dances, Again – Part 3

A day or two later, on a cold November afternoon, five people were seated around a mahogany library table at the Palais Kaunitz...
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Winning My Wings

A community bound into a vast network by radio frequencies, transponder codes, tail numbers, voices, and tracks on Flight Aware. Because “In the air, nobody can see the color of your skin.
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Lockdown In Green

Photography : Views of Los Angeles suburbia taken while out walking. S. Narayanswami 2021...
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Tove Jansson: Work and Love. Tuula Karjalainen

I received this book as a birthday gift from my brother in 2017 and read it then.
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“The Blue Flower” by Penelope Fitzgerald

When I was a child, I would frequently be overcome by a feeling of something wonderful just around the corner..
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The Easter Hat

Writing: After I finished my PhD at the University of St. Andrews, I did a postdoc in Strasbourg.   Separately from...
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The Doctor Dances, Again – Part 2

Episode #2 A meeting with Lady Clancarty That evening there was to be a reception at the Palais Kaunitz and...
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