Elizabeth Kent (actress)
Elizabeth Kent may refer to: * Isis Pogson (1852–1945), British astronomer, also known as Elizabeth Isis Kent * Elizabeth Kent (writer), 19th-century British writer on botany and horticulture *Elizabeth Thacher Kent Elizabeth Thacher Kent (September 22, 1868 – August 14, 1952) was an environmentalist and women's rights activist. Together with her husband, U.S. Congressman William Kent, she helped create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to t ...

Isis Pogson
Isis Pogson, (born Elizabeth Isis Pogson; 28 September 1852 – 14 May 1945), was a British astronomer and meteorologist, who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Biography Early life Pogson was born in Oxford, England, the eldest daughter of Norman Pogson by his first marriage to Elizabeth Jane Ambrose (died 1869). She was probably named after the River Isis, the part of the River Thames that flows through Oxford. Assisting astronomer Norman Pogson was an assistant at Radcliffe Observatory and then at Hartwell Observatory. He discovered the asteroid 42 Isis on 23 May 1856, for which he was awarded the Lalande Prize. The asteroid was named by Professor Manuel John Johnson, director of the Radcliffe Observatory, presumably in honour of Pogson's daughter Isis; it could also have been a reference to the River Isis. When her father became director of the Madras Observatory in Madras, India, in October 1860, he travelled to his ...
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Elizabeth Kent (writer)
Elizabeth Kent ('Bessy') (1791–1861) was a nineteenth century British writer on botanical and horticultural matters. Life The younger sister of Marianne Kent, the future wife of Leigh Hunt, the English critic and writer, it was Bess who initially drew Hunt into the family circle through her youthful admiration for his work. Through her brother-in-law, Hunt, for whom she acted as agent and amanuensis, she belonged to a circle (the Cockney School) of contemporary writers including Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John Clare. Her closeness to Hunt and her ambivalent position in her sister's household led to much contemporary gossip: it may be significant that it was only after her breach with the household in 1822 that Bess was able to emerge as a writer in her own right. Kent never married. Works Her best known work, ''Flora Domestica'', quoting extensively from Hunt and Keats, was published anonymously in 1823, and incorrectly attributed to Henry Phillips by F. W. Burbidge ...
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