The Auto/biographical Archive

Browne, Phyllis. Mrs Somerville and Mary Carpenter. London: Cassell and Company, 1887.

Chapman, Allan, Mary Somerville and the World of Science, Cham: Springer, 2015.

Lamprecht, Elizabeth Ann. 'The life of Mary Fairfax Somerville, mathematician and scientist: a study in contrasts'., Michigan Academician, 2015, 42(1):1-25, 10.7245/0026-2005-42.1.1

McKinlay, Jane, Mary Somerville, 1780–1872. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1987. 

Neeley, Kathryn, Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers, Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 (The Hague; Martinus Nijhoff, 1983)

Perl, Teri. Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians + Related Activities. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978.

Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, London, 1874. [Written by her daughter, Martha. Ebook available online from Project Gutenberg.]

Somerville, Mary. Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville, edited by McMillan, Dorothy. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001 [1873] [(ed.) 

Strickland, Elisabetta, The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society, Cham: Springer, 2016.

Tamboukou, Maria. ‘Ever yours, mathematically’: women’s letters and the mathematical imagination, Gender and Education, 35(8), 742-757, 2023. 

Termaat Barbara. "Mary Fairfax Grieg Somerville," in Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Editors, Greenwood Press (1998), 233-238.