The Gazette: Woman Paid a High Price for her Short but Brilliant Scientific Career

(John Kalbfleisch column in The Gazette): "Harriet Brooks, as she was known before she married Pitcher, came of age when it was highly unusual for women to go to university, and rarer still for them subsequently to pursue careers at the highest levels of science and teaching. Brooks did so, but at a terrible cost. She was born into a family of slender means in Exeter, Ont., in 1876. By 1894 they had fetched up in Montreal, and that same year she enrolled at McGill University. It was a good thing she was bright, for without the scholarships she won it's unlikely she could have continued…"