Katharine McMahon
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.