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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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