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Jane Kilby Welsh (1783–1853): Faith and Family

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In most scholarship on women science writers, Jane Kilby Welsh (1783–1853) is relegated to a footnote or a brief mention, alongside the titles of one of two of her books, and perhaps a mention that she was once a student of Amos Eaton. Reconstructing the history of this lifetime native of Massachusetts and situating her writings within the larger context of both New England geology and theology as well as the familiar format has taken concerted effort and yielded limited, if not fascinating results, many of which are described here for the first time.

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    Some of the vital facts in this section were taken from her gravestone, a picture of which can be found at https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57293003. Additional resources included digitized marriage, birth, and death records located through www.ancestry.com.

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    The presumptive pronoun will be used, despite the possibly Royal “we” utilized in the review.

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Larsen, K. (2017). Jane Kilby Welsh (1783–1853): Faith and Family. In: The Women Who Popularized Geology in the 19th Century . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64952-8_5

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