Eccentric young chemist, Emilie Selden, lives in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishments until an unexpected encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home, her work, and her father.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: scientists, family relationships, fiction, eccentrics and eccentricities, conflict of generations, fathers and daughters, fathers, death, england, fiction