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POPSMothers in Science Download the PDF file, where each page has a timeline showing the career path and also important events in the contributor's life, 64 in all. It was enjoyable to go though :) and as someone who wishes to embark upon both, it gave solace.
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POPSCalamities of Genius Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler lived in penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself. – The Terrific Register, 1825