The alchemist's daughter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Katharine McMahon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
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.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.