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THE ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns with a compelling look at the life, loves, and works of Ada Lovelace, who was Lord Byron’s daughter and the world’s first computer programmer.
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron—the most captivating, scandalous, and revered of the romantic poets—Ada Lovelace was bound for fame long before she was even born. And while the world around her never let her forget her poetical lineage, her staid mathematician mother sought to quench its influence over her. Terrified of her Byron blood, Ada’s mother considers Ada’s imagination a dangerous thing, and restricts her childhood to focus on math and sciences. Any sign of passion, even for the natural world, is promptly extinguished. It is her introduction into London society that finally grants Ada the intellectual and social outlets she’s craved her entire life. But it is truly her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage that changes everything. Enthralled from the first with his Difference Engine, and then with his plans for a computing Analytic Engine—what will become known as the world’s first computer—Ada doggedly pursues new mathematical concepts and inventions as she falls in love, uncovers her parents’ secrets, and grows into her own.
In ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passion, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge that came together to make one woman a scientific pioneer—a pioneer who broke free of her father’s sordid legacy to create a name for herself and forge a path for technology that would change the world.
This is the first time Ada Lovelace’s story is being fictionalized; she is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer, and her story is an unusually feminist one, making this novel ideal for book club discussions.
Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, The Spymistress, Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival, Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, Christmas Bells, and Fates and Traitors, as well as the Elm Creek Quilts series, including The Christmas Quilt. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
In ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passion, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge that came together to make one woman a scientific pioneer—a pioneer who broke free of her father’s sordid legacy to create a name for herself and forge a path for technology that would change the world.
This is the first time Ada Lovelace’s story is being fictionalized; she is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer, and her story is an unusually feminist one, making this novel ideal for book club discussions.
Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, The Spymistress, Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival, Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, Christmas Bells, and Fates and Traitors, as well as the Elm Creek Quilts series, including The Christmas Quilt. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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