Vera Vorontzoff . Rendered into English by Anna von Rydingsvard

Kovalevsky, Sonya

Published by Lamson Wolffe and Co, Boston and New York, 1895

About this Item

First American edition and first edition in English; 16mo, pp. [2], ix, [1], 3-197, [1]; engraved tailpieces; biographical introduction by Rydingsvard; original decorative tan cloth stamped in red, blue, black and silver with strong Russian motifs, uncut, t.e.g.; boards soiled, upper free endpaper excised, very good in a custom quarter red morocco clamshell box, gilt spine. Sonya Kovalevsky's life was a singular one. She entered into a false marriage in order to escape the conservative demands placed upon her by mid-19th-century social mores, and through this ruse was able to pursue a career in mathematics. She won multiple accolades in this field, becoming the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics, the first woman to join the editorial board of a scientific journal, the first woman to win the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Sciences, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. In her later life she turned to writing fiction, with this posthumous novel being her last. It is a semi-autobiographical account of a young Russian noblewoman who longs to dedicate herself to a cause but falls into Nihilism after the emancipation of the Russian serfs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vera Vorontzoff . Rendered into English by Anna von Rydingsvard
• Publisher: Lamson Wolffe and Co, Boston and New York
• Publication Date: 1895
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  • Literature
  • Mathematics