Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
2 Items
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Matches: 4 hits
- … and entry examinations. This made their choice of private school increasingly paramount. The costs …
- … The boys were then sent to a tutor at a preparatory school for a couple of terms, before attending a …
- … was chosen for the younger boys, who all boarded at Clapham School. Darwin’s daughters received …
- … that his fifteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth was to board at school in Kensington ‘at her own wish’ …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
letter
