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Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those …
- … variety of women had access to, and engaged with, Darwin's published works. A set of letters on …
- … May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over Hooker’s suggestion that his writing style might …
- … H. E., [8 February 1870] Darwin seeks Henrietta’s editorial help with chapters three and …
- … got hold of it first. Darwin’s female readership Letter …
- … with which to work. She has transcribed parts of Darwin’s papers, including diagrams, to share with …
- … "epistolary acquaintance" of his, Sara Hennell . Hennell's writings show a " …
- … range of evidence in order to raise questions about Darwin’s conclusions, in particular his …
- … - Barnard, A. to Darwin, [30 March 1871] J. S. Henslow’s daughter, Anne, responds to …
- … Frances Wedgwood offers critical comments on Darwin’s work on self-regard. She asks Henrietta act as …
- … The poet Emily Pfeiffer responds critically to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. She has read …
- … selection for debates over marriage. Since reading Darwin’s work a “flood of questions” have …
- … to as such questions “seem almost...out of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8778 …
- … a fight between boatmen, which reminded her of Darwin’s comments on anger and the showing of teeth …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … Down House measured by the ongoing tally of his and Emma’s backgammon games. ‘I have won, hurrah, …
- … Lodge with his wife, Amy, had settled in as his father’s botanical assistant, and their close …
- … concussion from a riding accident, and George Darwin’s ill-health grew worse, echoing Darwin’s own …
- … of the next generation of the family, with Francis and Amy’s child expected in September. Their joy …
- … to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s death. For once, the labour of checking proofs …
- … dimorphic and trimorphic plants in new ways. New Year's resolutions Darwin began …
- … Elder and Company proposed reissuing two of Darwin’s three volumes of the geology of the …
- … not even to look at a single proof ’. Perhaps Carus’s meticulous correction of errors in the German …
- … in an anonymous article, which impugned not only George’s but also Darwin’s respectability (see …
- … that Mivart still had the capacity to damage George’s reputation. ‘I care little about myself but Mr …
- … the still raw memory of this incident that underlay Darwin’s heartfelt thanks to Wallace for his …
- … Darwin hoped not only to remove any stain on Lankester’s scientific reputation, but also to save the …
- … 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s view, the five votes against Lankester …
- … action to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write …
- … with him on the subject, this did not affect Darwin’s pragmatic summing up of the situation: ‘It …
- … be wondered at—Nature in all her contrivances,—or man’s mind, able to investigate them to such …
- … in a ‘remarkable manner’ by replicating Darwin’s experiments. In contrast, the German physiologist …
- … but in his case in the hope of confirming Darwin’s views on heredity as expressed in the pangenesis …
- … date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by Romanes’s response to the heavily revised chapter …
- … anxious than ever to get positive results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, …
- … the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. Opposing Darwin’s views for the first time, Haeckel had …
- … on to newly formed plastidules. Darwin thought Haeckel’s essay ‘clever & striking’, but wondered …
- … into a ‘substantial theory’, Darwin forwarded Haeckel’s essay to him on 29 May. If pangenesis was …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds to Darwin’s …
- … wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression …
- … and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - …
- … passes on brief observations of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - …
- … wife of naturalist John Lubbock, responds to Darwin’s request that she make observations of her pet …
- … of orchids made by his son, George. He details George’s findings and celebrates his son’s …
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