Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich, ne Boole (May 11, 1864July 27, 1960) was an English novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.



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