Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards (1842-1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry. Ellen was a "pragmatic" feminist, as well as a founding "ecofeminist" who believed that women"s work within the home was a vital aspect of the economy. From 1884 until her death, she was an instructor in the newly founded laboratory of sanitary chemistry, the Lawrence Experiment Station, which was the first in the United States and headed by her former professor William R. Nichols. She was a consulting chemist for the Massachusetts State Board of Health from 1872 to 1875, and the official water analyst from 1887 until 1897. She also served as a consultant to the Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Co, and in 1900 wrote the textbook Air, Water, and Food From a Sanitary Standpoint, with A. G. Woodman. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Cost of Shelter (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Ellen Henrietta Richards)