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‘A Shining Furrow’ The Life of Charles T
Whitmell, Astronomer & Educationalist David Sellers Format: Paperback Size: 297 mm x 210 mm (A4) Pages: 182 ISBN: 9780954101312 Published: 1 September 2021 |
Price: £27.00 (post free in UK) |
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About
this book The epitaph on
the tombstone of Charles Whitmell (1849-1919) bears the simple description:
‘Astronomer’. As this book reveals, however, he was much more than that. By
the time his life was over he had secured a place in the hearts of his fellow
citizens across a remarkable range of activities. He became a well-known
teacher and educationalist, a prolific writer on mathematics and astronomy, a
campaigner for votes for women, girls’ education, mixed-gender education,
free education and working-class educational opportunity—even a poet. He was
appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools successively in Sheffield,
Liverpool, Cardiff, Leeds and West Yorkshire. His services were always in
demand as an expert and humorous lecturer on literature, travel, philosophy,
geology, astronomy and physics. As his enthusiasms expanded, so too did the
reach of his correspondence with like-minded souls around the world. Three years after
Whitmell’s death in 1919, his sister, Charlotte, donated his notebooks and
diaries to Leeds University Library: an astonishing 217 volumes. This unusual
biography is based on that collection, as well as on Whitmell’s published
work. |
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