Title: The alchemist's daughter : a novel /
Authors: McMahon, Katharine.
Publisher: Crown Publishers,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Scientists Family relationships Fiction.; Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction; Conflict of generations Fiction; Fathers and daughters Fiction; Fathers Death Fiction; Social isolation Fiction; Country homes Fiction.; Young women Fiction.; Alchemists Fiction; England Fiction.
Abstract: 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.