Williamina Fleming Astronomer

<p>Desperate pregnant and abandoned by her new husband just weeks after immigrating to Boston 21-year-old Mina Fleming works as a housemaid for the Director of the Harvard College Observatory. It's 1879. Science and industry are about to usher in the Gilded Age. </p><p></p><p>Astronomers who thought they had mapped all the stars in the sky are finding that the universe is more vast than they ever imagined. Mina rises from maid to discoverer of new stars first woman to hold a title at Harvard and consultant to scientists all over the world. But they do not call her Astronomer. She is one of Harvard's Women Computers doing the work at a fraction of their pay.</p><p></p><p>This historical fiction novel-in-verse an imagined memoir of Williamina Fleming's own life work and words brings to life a forgotten scientist a woman of strength intelligence and character who will inspire readers today.</p>