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Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
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- … Though Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, a few …
- … acquired learning she was recognised as the cleverest of her generation. From childhood she knew …
- … Gaskell, who she helped when she was writing her biography of Charlotte Bronte. She made a …
- … were on Darwin, Lyell, the debate on the origins of language, which keenly interested her father, …
- … 1870 and served as informal Classics tutor in the first year of what became Girton College, …
- … friendship when he returned to London after the death of his wife. Some in the family expected it to …
- … he showed The Ring and the Book to in proof. Her lack of sympathy for his long poem ended their …
- … life. Wedgwood’s The Moral Ideal , the outcome of twenty years of reading, thinking and …
- … it, in part, as her answer to Darwinism. The Message of Israel (1888) aimed to make the findings …
- … Century Teachers (1909) she republished several of her profiles of leading Victorians she had …
- … Richard Hutton and her spiritual mentor, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen. In her later years she was …
- … Welsh housemaid installed as her companion to take care of household management and free her to …
- … she never lost her essential modesty. Given the brilliance of her teachers and the proximity of her …
- … refusal to consider their theological implications, dislike of the combative stance of some of his …
- … Wedgwood’s review of The Descent of Man in the Spectator on 18 March 1871 was one of two …
- … Darwin biography was published Wedgwood’s review in the Spectator , published anonymously but …
- … , Professor Harold Herford, who described her in the Spectator as “one of the most gifted …
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. …
- … "A child of God" (1) …
- … (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
- … J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1) …
- … (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
- … Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
- … Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
- … Chance, Frank (3) Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) …
- … (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Edison, T. A. (2) Editor (3) …
- … (1) Geological Society of London (18) Gibb, …
- … Houk, E. P. T. (1) House of Commons (1) …
- … Jones, R. O. (1) Journal of Horticulture (15) …
- … (1) Librarian, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Mellersh, Arthur (5) Member of the Athenaeum Club (1) …
- … (1) Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (1) …
- … (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … William (1) Registrar of Friendly Societies (1) …
- … R. C. M. (1) Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … (1) Royal Institution of Great Britain (1) …
- … Spearman, A. Y. (18) Spectator (1) …
- … Zoological Society (1) editor of Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions Plants …
- … species, and botanical research had often been a source of personal satisfaction, providing relief …
- … on a book manuscript for some nine months. The pleasures of observation and experiment had given way …
- … was also revising another manuscript, the second edition of Climbing plants , which he hoped to …
- … had he completed these tasks, than he took up the revision of another, much longer book, the second …
- … to devote more time to research, returning to the subject of cross and self-fertilisation. On 3 …
- … Kew, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, about the prospect of obtaining new specimens: ‘I have great …
- … to prepare draft legislation for Parliament. At the end of the year, he campaigned vigorously …
- … dispute with Mivart came to a close. The final chapter of the controversy involved a slanderous …
- … Darwin had been supported during the affair by the loyalty of his close friends, Hooker and Thomas …
- … the anonymous reviewer (Mivart) as a blind antagonist of ‘all things Darwinian’ and a mere …
- … friend.’ Hooker was hampered by his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart …
- … let him feel it .’ Hooker also directed some of his anger toward John Murray, the …
- … was disgraced, that I should give the cold shoulder to the Editor … Poor Murray shuddered again & …
- … a favourable review of Insectivorous plants for the Spectator , and took up the subject …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement …
- … Preface To part II or that intended for N o II of the foresaid works. By Captain Robert …
- … – and almost as heavy – limited the 2 nd to 700 pages of easily readable type – and the Appendix …
- … – I was compelled to omit a very handsome collection of exceedingly valuable materials which I am …
- … has been made for it, by the reading public. For the object of stimulating that call – this …
- … commanding under it an H.C. Cruizer [ vf.147v p.2 ] of considerably greater tonnage – and …
- … or at most was no further advanced in life than the serving of my school, (or college) fag …
- … not hesitate to (unofficially) give the title – to Masters of Merchant Ships – Knowing as they do – …
- … – prose and poetry – down to the Chilian newspapers of the other day – narratives of exploitations – …
- … first Edition – will be amplified, enlarged, and, to those of foreign languages – translations …
- … 97˚ 4' E.” It is true – to be sure – that the Editor of the fifth Edition of Horsburgh& …
- … has spelt the name. *[8] 4 th Why has the Editor of the fifth Edition of Horsburgh' …
- … it being far detached from the Southern group" he (that Editor) says indeed as aforementioned …
- … Edition of Horsburgh's Book *[11] – edited after its Editor had seen my work. The …
- … to the possession of extra-ingenuity – or as my friend the Editor of the London Examiner has very …
- … cases – exist not in the spectacle but in the eyes of the Spectator – there are good reasons for …
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