Mary Elizabeth Horner (1808–1832)
Mary Elizabeth Lyell (1832–1873)
1808–73
Eldest child and first daughter of Leonard Horner. Married Charles Lyell in Germany in 1832.
Sources
Freeman 1978
ODNB s.v. Lyell, Charles
Further Reading
For more information see:
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/gender/2010/09/21/wives-of-naturalists/
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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