1. Agnes Giberne was a British novelist and scientific writer.
20 Facts About Agnes Giberne
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Agnes Giberne's fiction was typical of Victorian evangelical fiction with moral or religious themes for children.
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Agnes Giberne wrote books on science for young people, a handful of historical novels, and one well-regarded biography.
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Agnes Giberne's ancestors were Huguenots from Languedoc in France where the "de Gibernes" lived in Chateau de Gibertain.
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Agnes Giberne's parents married at St Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow on 11 December 1838.
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Charles Agnes Giberne had already been pensioned off and was staying at no 17, Beaufort, in Bath with two servants.
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Agnes Giberne began to scribble stories at age seven and shared these with her sisters Agnes Giberne ascribed her literary tastes to her mother and her scientific curiosity to her father.
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The first children's book by Giberne in the British Library is A Visit to Aunt Agnes.
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Agnes Giberne had a wider range than just evangelical and didactic stories for young children.
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Agnes Giberne wrote books targeted at young adolescent girls, which was mainly published by the Religious Tract Society.
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Giverne's Aunt Caroline Cuffley Agnes Giberne had worked as a missionary in India, and concentrated on work with women and girls.
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However, Agnes Giberne is best remembered for her books popularising science.
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Agnes Giberne was an amateur astronomer who worked on the committee setting up the British Astronomical Association and became a founder-member in 1890.
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Agnes Giberne's first foray into science was a book on astronomy Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners.
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Agnes Giberne had sent the proofs to Charles Pritchard, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University and he was so impressed by it that he wrote, without being asked, a very positive introduction.
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Agnes Giberne did not ignore the other sciences, she wrote books on:.
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Agnes Giberne found herself with severe financial problems in 1905, and applied to the Royal Literary Fund.
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Agnes Giberne was now sixty, and was said to have given up the best years of her life to support her ailing father.
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Agnes Giberne had failing eyesight, with cataracts in both eyes, and a weak heart.
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Agnes Giberne died in a nursing home at 16 Motcombe Road, Eastbourne, on 20 August 1939, aged 94.