Ethel Boole
Ethel Boole is the Irish revolutionary who goes to Russia to join the revolutionaries. She writes a novel called The Gadfly. It inspires millions of Russian and Chinese to rise up to fight to create a new world. In the 1920s she heads to New York and inherits a strange manuscript written in a language no one can understand: The Voynich Manuscript.
Her father, though, is one of the creators of the revolution of our present age. He is George Boole, who invents Boolean Logic – a way of describing what goes on in people’s minds mathematically. It is the concept behind algorithms. His great-great-grandson – Geoffrey Hinton – now works in artificial intelligence at Google. Another of her relatives in the late 19th century puts forward the idea of being able to see the fourth dimension, which inspires a lot of the work of Alan Moore.
