Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science [electronic resource] : an astronomer among the American romantics / Renée Bergland.

Urania's island
Nantucket Athena
The sexes of science
Miss Mitchell's comet
"A center of rude eyes and tongues"
The shoulders of giants
The yankee Corinnes
A mentor in Florence
The war years
Vassar Female College
No miserable bluestocking
"Good woman that she is"
The undevout astronomer
Retrograde motion
Urania's inversion.