User:Julia.shel/Mary lyell/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
We propose to create a more full and detailed read of Mary Horner Lyell's Wikipedia page. We felt that her Wikipedia article is still largely geared towards Charles Lyell (her husband's) accomplishments. With new information found, we hope to extend her article and provide further detail into her work and accomplishments, as well as detail into the difficulties that she faced being a female geologist during her time. Adding this information would provide great insight to readers as to why there is limited work accredited directly under her name and also a much deeper insight into her life and her identity. Overall, there will be minor editing and arrangement of existing information as well as new additional information about her life and career.

We also propose to add a new section under Wikipedia Article titled "Letters." Although almost no geological work is published directly under her name, Mary Horner Lyell wrote dozens of letters detailing her and her husband's daily lives, their travels, the people they met, as well as their work. Horner-Lyell's letters provides a clear timeline for her and her husband's activities, and also provides great detail into the general daily life of the 19th century. Many of Lyell-Horner's letters are drawn upon for information and insight about Charles Lyell and his work in several research papers, and so we feel that her letters are still a very important part of her work and should be included in her article.

In addition to this, we are looking to add a "Historical Context" subsection in her article, to add information an explanation for her name's absence in scientific work and studies, and also to add any other additional information about her struggles as a female geologist in a time where they otherwise were not welcome.