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Christie’s ‘Lady Computers’ – the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich.

The first women to be employed at the Royal Observatory in a professional capacity were Isabella Clemes, Alice Everett, Harriet Furniss, Edith Rix and Annie Russell. They were all employed as ‘Lady Computers’ between 1890 and 1895.

By Graham Dolan via @ROGAstronomers

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Isabella Clemes (left) with her brother Samuel, who is standing behind their grandfather William Clemes (seated). To his right are his grandnieces Harriet and Juliet Dunster. From a photograph taken in St Austell in the 1860s courtesy of Catherine Sheldon Lazier.
Alice Everett. Print by Andre & Sleigh from a photograph by Morgan & Kidd, Greenwich. From the 22 November 1893 edition of The Sketch.
Dorothea Klumpke. From a carte de visite by Photographie des Grands Magasins du Louvre à Paris.
Anne Clough, Mistress of Newnham and President of the Association of Women Teachers. Albumen cabinet card by an unknown photographer, 1880–1892. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence

Christie's 'Lady Computers' - the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich

Staffing problems in the late 1880s; The mystery of the missing records; The intended role of the women; The Astrographic programme and other photographic work done by the women; Published one-off and ocassional observations with other instruments; A…
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