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Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … with specimens of plants indigenous to her home town, Manchester. She also sent detailed …
- … women's scientific organisation, the disarmingly titled Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. …
- … by sending not one but three papers to be read at the ladies’ inaugural meeting ('Climbing …
- … paper and the enclosure in her letter to Darwin of the society’s first pamphlet certainly made no …
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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- … papers, including diagrams, to share with members of the Manchester Ladies Literary Society . …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … the reasons behind the book’s popularity: ‘I hear that Ladies think it delightful reading, but that …
- … books’ reception amongst ‘artisans and mill-hands of Manchester and Oldham … They club together to …
- … in the periodical press, including religious journals, literary magazines, and daily newspapers (see …
- … in the offspring. In a paper presented at the Royal Society of London in March, Galton announced …
- … from a short paper Darwin had delivered at the Geological Society of London in 1837, would culminate …
