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By this time, Mary Somerville didn’t want to remain in La Spezia any longer. Another change of air seemed advisable. She had succedeed in finishing her book Molecular and Microscopic Science and sent the manuscript to London for publication, via her widowed daughter-in-law Agnes, who had spent a few months with the three women. Instead of being satisfied with her work, for the first time in her life she had some serious doubts about the choice she had made to devote herself to the popularization of science. She just felt that she should have concentrated on mathematics alone, as that was her true interest.
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Strickland, E. (2016). Life in Naples. In: The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49193-6_10
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