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Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
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- … Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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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…
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- … 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’ …
- … [1859] ). Whole family outings were relatively rare and holidays at the seaside were often …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
