death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
eastbourne , east sussex , england 20 august 1939 belgaum , karnataka , india english 19 november 1845 19th century children 's literature agnes giberne
 agnes giberne writer
agnes giberne

agnes giberne -lrb- 19 november 1845 , belgaum , india -- 20 august 1939 eastbourne , england -rrb- was a prolific british author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people .
educated by governesses in europe and england after her father major charles giberne retired from service in india , agnes giberne started publishing didactic novels and short stories with improving themes under her initials a.g. , some of it for the religious tract society .
later she used her full name for her fiction , for her well-received works on astronomy and the natural world , and for her biography of the children 's writer charlotte maria tucker .
most of her writing was done before 1910 .
giberne was an amateur astronomer who worked on the committee setting up the british astronomical association and became a founder-member in 1890 .
her popular illustrated book `` sun , moon and stars : astronomy for beginners '' -lrb- 1879 -rrb- , with a foreword by oxford professor of astronomy , charles pritchard , was printed in several editions on both sides of the atlantic , and sold 24,000 copies in its first 20 years .
later she wrote a book called `` among the stars '' which , as giberne explains in the introduction , is a version of `` sun , moon and stars '' for younger children .
it is about a boy called ikon who is very interested in the stars .
he meets a professor who explains more about the stars and solar system to ikon .
