I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
"Senechal draws from scholarly archives and her own experience working with Wrinch to draw a portrait of this complicated, intriguing, and frequently overlooked polymath. [Readers] who persevere will discover a 'scary smart' scientist, mother, teacher, and feminist whose 'life was her work, [and] her work her life.'" --Publisher's Weekly"It is tremendous that Senechal has excavated this story. She offers a gripping portrait of an era and of a scientist whose complications acquire a tragic glamour. It is a cautionary tale for which we must supply the moral ourselves." --Nature"Ever heard of Dorothy Wrinch? Me neither. But Marjorie Senechal will change that in her biographyI Died for Beauty(named after a poem by Emily Dickinson).. . . Senechal sensitively documents Wrinch's later life - the few flashes of brilliance illuminating career marginalisation; and the tragedy of her daughter's death. But it is with the big ideas from early on that Senechal argues Wrinch should join the ranks of great names we should remember."  --New Scientist"[An] altogether excellent biography . . .I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Scienceis absolutely fantastic in its entirety--poignant, rigorously researched, absorbingly narrated, impossible to put down. Do pick it up."  --Brainpickings