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Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would be little trace of his …
- … Shropshire possesses ’. This personage, a certain Miss Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of …
- … and what Darwin’s hopes might have been regarding Fanny when he embarked on the Beagle voyage. …
- … from her to the end of his life. The Mostyn Owen and Darwin families were …
- … of Woodhouse. The high-spirited, fun-loving Fanny, two years older than Darwin, clearly …
- … are escaping creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others …
- … to her housemaid, and Woodhouse was The Forest. Fanny’s teasing and familiar tone, as well as …
- … After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her older sister, Sarah, both …
- … in Edinburgh. ‘I never saw such merry, agreeable girls as Fanny and Sarah are’, she reported, ‘ …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her …
- … her older sister, Sarah, were visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), …
- … been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the Mostyn Owen family, having had a …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), …
- … ’. Darwin’s delight in the world created by Fanny Owen in the forest of her own imagination, …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
