Caroline Herschel’s recollections of a hard girlhood in Hanover open this memoir, followed by her life in Bath as a singer and her brother William’s assistant, then her years at his side as he built telescopes and charted the heavens. Her diaries and letters continue through her widowhood in old age back in Hanover.
A moving record of a woman who discovered comets and became a respected astronomer in her own right. Download the free EPUB.