The Maternal Element
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2026
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-399-8 (ISBN)
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-399-8 (ISBN)
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Reflecting the power of the choices we make, this cleverly imagined, historical novel transports us to live with the Mendeleev family in 19th-century Siberia. Intimately capturing the challenges faced by the matriarch as she, and her dynamic family, confront dramatic life-changing events, driven by nature and a rapid rise in authoritarianism.
Siberia 1833.
Forty-one-year-old Maria Mendeleeva is enduring her seventeenth pregnancy. Her husband Ivan has lost his sight, and her brother Vasily has left their grandfather’s glass factory in ruins. The factory Maria hungered for as a child. On the brink of poverty and her family’s only remaining hope, Maria must find a way to make the factory viable. She must find the power to bring her grandfather's dreams back to life. She must make the glass sing.
The Maternal Element is a sweeping, gripping epic with an extraordinary woman at its heart. Maria Mendeleeva – mother of Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the Periodic Table of the Elements – is a heroine like no other. A woman who refuses to be quashed by circumstance, Maria fights against the strictures of her time to gain an education for herself and for her children as she traverses the Urals of Russia seeking opportunity and safety for her family. A vivid and visceral portrait of a woman history has long since forgotten, The Maternal Element is a manifesto for truth, female empowerment and defying societal expectations.
Siberia 1833.
Forty-one-year-old Maria Mendeleeva is enduring her seventeenth pregnancy. Her husband Ivan has lost his sight, and her brother Vasily has left their grandfather’s glass factory in ruins. The factory Maria hungered for as a child. On the brink of poverty and her family’s only remaining hope, Maria must find a way to make the factory viable. She must find the power to bring her grandfather's dreams back to life. She must make the glass sing.
The Maternal Element is a sweeping, gripping epic with an extraordinary woman at its heart. Maria Mendeleeva – mother of Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the Periodic Table of the Elements – is a heroine like no other. A woman who refuses to be quashed by circumstance, Maria fights against the strictures of her time to gain an education for herself and for her children as she traverses the Urals of Russia seeking opportunity and safety for her family. A vivid and visceral portrait of a woman history has long since forgotten, The Maternal Element is a manifesto for truth, female empowerment and defying societal expectations.
Kate Nicholls was born in the UK in 1954. Raised in a theatrical family, she had a successful acting career but gave it up to study evolutionary biology. She raised and homeschooled her five children while researching lions in the Okavango Delta. A passionate believer in liberal arts education she founded a homeschool company in 2011. She lives happily in Rome where she studies, teaches and writes overlooking the Tiber. She is the author of Under the Camelthorn Tree (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78463-399-2 / 1784633992 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78463-399-8 / 9781784633998 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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