Jane Marcet

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Jane Haldimand , married Marcet (born January 1, 1769 in London ; † June 28, 1858 there ; entitled to live in Yverdon-les-Bains ) was a Swiss-British author of popular science non-fiction.

Her parents were the wealthy, originally Geneva banker and merchant Antoine-François Haldimand and Jane, née. Pickersgill. Frederick Haldimand was her great-uncle. In addition to William Haldimand , she had other brothers with whom she was trained by private tutors. In 1786 she made a trip to Italy.

In 1799 she married Alexander Marcet , a doctor also of Swiss origins who also taught chemistry at Guys Hospital in London. With whom she had three other children in addition to Francis / François Marcet .

She attended Humphry Davy's chemistry classes and decided to make her newfound knowledge easily accessible to a wide audience. She was friends with the writer Maria Edgeworth and with Mary Somerville .

In 1819 the couple moved to the Swiss hamlet of Malagny (municipality of Genthod ), where they communicated with Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle and Auguste Arthur de la Rive . After the death of her husband in 1822, she returned to England.

Her popular science works in the form of dialogues between governess Mrs. B (probably based on Margaret Bryan ) and the young girls Emily and Caroline were extremely successful and aroused Michael Faraday's interest in science. Harriet Martineau was inspired by her economics books .

Works

  • Conversations on Chemistry. In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments , 1806.
  • Conversations on Political Economy: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained 1816, ISBN 1-4369-9808-5
  • Conversations on Natural Philosophy (an exposition of the first elements of science for very young children), 1819.
  • Conversations on Evidences of Christianity , 1826.
  • Conversations on Vegetable Physiology , 1829.
  • Essays , 1831
  • John Hopkins's Notions of Political Economy , 1833
  • The Ladies' companion to the Flower Garden , 1841.
  • Conversations on the History of England , 1842
  • Conversations on Language for Children , 1844
  • Willy's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories for the Use of Children , 1845, ISBN 1-4373-6528-0
  • Rich and Poor , 1851
  • Mrs. Marcet's story book

Web links


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucienne Hubler: Marcet, Jane. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 17, 2008 , accessed February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Marcet, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haldimand, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Inventor of popular science non-fiction books
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1858
Place of death London