The Literary Archive



Primary Sources

Bodleian Archives and Manuscripts


Drafts of Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age and related papers, 1817-1818 and n.d. [c.1872-c.1873]



Secondary Literature 


Boswell, Michelle.Poetry and Parallax in Mary Somerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.’ Victorian Literature and Culture 45, 4 (2017): 727–744.

Jenkins, Alice. ‘Writing the Self and Writing Science: Mary Somerville as Autobiographer’. In Rethinking Victorian Culture, edited by Juliet John and Alice Jenkins, 162-178. London; Macmillan, 1999.

Jenkins, Alice. Space and the ‘March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815–1850. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Swindells, Julia. ‘Other People’s Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville’, Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, 96-108. Basingstoke: Macmillan.