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Last Name Whitwell

Given Name Catherine Vale °

alt. Names C. V. W. ;

Marriage probably none

Children probably none

Year born 1789 in Upper Thames Str., London, Greater London

Year died 1873

Place of death Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Father's occupation William Whitwell (1735 c. -1789 after)

Relatives Catherine West (1764-1835 c.) (mother) ;

Education

Country of Activity Scotland, UK

Worked for C. V. W.: An Astronomical Catechism: or, Dialogues between a mother and her daughter (1818) ;

Patronage C. V. W. was teacher in Robert Owen's School for Children at New Lanark, Scotland

Collaborators

Techniques astronomical drawing and copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources http://oro.open.ac.uk/59822/# ; https://www.geni.com/people/Catherine-Whitwell/6000000013015670492 ;

Published sources Ian Donnachie: C.V.W., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/.013.112270 ; Judit Brody: The Enigma of Sunspots (2002): 11-12 ;

other C.V.W. was educationist and teacher, pioneering the use of visual aids in the classrooms. She was also the author of works on astronomy, an artist, feminist and Owenite communitarian. See also for further relatives: https://www.geni.com/people/Catherine-Whitwell/6000000013015670492 .

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