Go Deeper

• The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel - Chronicles the women computers of the Harvard Observatory, many of them Mitchell's intellectual descendants, who catalogued hundreds of thousands of stars while being paid less than factory workers.
• Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters by Henry Albers (ed.) - Mitchell's own words across decades of journals and correspondence - a first-person record of what it cost and what it felt like to build a career in nineteenth-century science as a woman.