References for Caroline Herschel

1. M A Hoskin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901973.html

Books:

2. A M Clerke, The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1895).
3. M C Herschel, Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (New York, 1876).
4. C A Lubbock (ed.), The Herschel Chronicle: The Life-Story of William Herschel and His Sister Caroline Herschel (Cambridge, 1933).
5. E Pierce, Caroline Herschel : Tale of a Comet (1974).

Articles:

6. A M Clerke, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Dictionary of National Biography XXVI (London, 1891), 260-263.
7. M T A Kempis, Caroline Herschel, Scripta Math. 21 (1955), 246-247.
8. M B Ogilvie, Caroline Herschel's contributions to astronomy, Ann. of Sci. 32 (1975), 149-161.
9. F J Ring, John Herschel and his heritage, in D G King-Hele (ed.), John Herschel 1792-1871 : A bicentennial commemoration (London, 1992), 3-16.
10. J South, An address delivered at the annual general meeting of the Astronomical Society of London on February 8 1829, on presenting the honorary medal to Miss Caroline Herschel, Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society 3 (1829), 409-412.

July 1999