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Gormley, Beatrice.
MARIA MITCHELL : THE SOUL OF AN ASTRONOMER
Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, 1995.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0802852645
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If Maria had been born in another time, she would not have had to overcome such prejudice to do what she longed to do.  In the mid-1800s, women did not usually go to college.  Many did not even finish high school.  But Maria was determined.  She not only went to college, but she became the first woman astronomer.  Her accomplishments pave the way for those that came after her.  Read all about this amazing woman.
SUBJECTS:     Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889.
                        Astronomers.
                        Women -- Biography.

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