A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started The Computer Age - Plot & Excerpts
Firstly, it would give her the opportunity to publicise the important work being done by her close friend Babbage, of whom she was seeing a good deal more than ever before. Secondly, the translation work would allow her to advance her dream of having an intellectual career which would lift her above the demands of motherhood, running three homes and looking after a wealthy but ineffectual husband. Ada was conscious of the difficulty of her task, but was convinced that she was more than equal to the job. She launched into it with characteristic energy. Her French was excellent, and her best writing has a fluency, clarity of expression and mastery of metaphor and image that on occasion even recalls her father’s fluent and expressive prose. There is no reason to disbelieve Babbage’s account in his autobiography that it was Ada’s idea to produce the translation in the first place. Here is what Babbage says in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
What do You think about A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started The Computer Age?
