Hertha Marks Ayrton - Personal Life and Commemoration

Personal Life and Commemoration

Ayrton was agnostic, but retained close ties to the Jewish community. In her teens she adopted the name "Hertha" after the eponymous heroine of a Swinburne poem that criticized organized religion.

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