Constructing the “home-side” of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticity

The Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric deliv...