 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Eleanor Doorly |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robert Gibbings |
| Cover artist | Gibbings |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Marie Curie |
| Genre | Biography for children |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1939 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 181 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0435120077 (1970?) |
| OCLC | 558179914 |
| LC Class | QD22.C8 D6 1940[1] |
The Radium Woman: A youth edition of the life of Madame Curie is a biography of the scientist Marie Curie adapted for children by Eleanor Doorly from the 1937 biography by Ève Curie. It was published by Heinemann in 1939 with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings as chapter headings.[2]
Doorly and The Radium Woman won the fourth annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[3] Only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.
Hesperides Press republished the biography in 2006.[4]
- ^ "The radium woman; a youth edition of the life of Madame Curie" (1940 edition, London and Toronto). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ "Formats and Editions of The radium woman: a youth edition of the life of Madame Curie". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
medal1939was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ The Radium Woman. Hesperides edition (2006). ISBN 1406706132.