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Conversations on Chemistry, Intended More Especially for the Female Sex was a pedagogical work of popular science written by Jane Haldimand Marcet and published anonymously in 1805. Despite being a textbook aimed at female children, it proved massively popular and influential throughout much of the nineteenth century.
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The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853
M. Susan Lindee
Isis, Vol. 82, No. 1. (Mar., 1991), pp. 8-23.
