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Florence Caroline Dixie
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On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the Scottish Borders; “Whilst reading the other day your very interesting account of A Naturalist’s Voyage round the world,” she said, “I came across a passage…of…
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- … On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the …
- … which “ never comes to the surface of the ground “. Florence Dixie, however, disagreed; “I am sure …
- … that there are exceptions”. The previous year Lady Florence Dixie had spent six months …
- … book Across Patagonia (1880). Perhaps most famously, Dixie encountered a family of jaguars …
- … mother] but saved one of the cubs from the gauchos”. Dixie was so taken with the jaguar cub that …
- … fulfilled her duty to marry and bear children [2] , Dixie left England to travel around south …
- … eating wild game!). On her return from South America, Dixie was the first woman ever …
- … As well as a traveller, hunter, writer and journalist, Dixie was also a keen political activist. She …
- … and divorce. Like many of her feminist contemporaries, Dixie was also an active member of the …
- … of the British Ladies’ Football Club. In 1890, Dixie published perhaps her most well-known …
- … a fantasy world in which men and women lived as equals. For Dixie, women’s lack of access to …
- … to Nature”. It is perhaps striking that even today Dixie’s life remains remarkable for its …
- … by supportive familial and institutional structures, Dixie was able successfully to balance her …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … or corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be.”(Letter to Darwin, H. E., [8 Feb 1870] ) …
- … exchanges that he marked as “for your private use.” (Letter to Kennard, C.A., 9 Jan 1882 ) In …
- … Treat: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-8146 Florence Dixie to Charles Darwin: http …
- … attitude to women’s education. See, for example, a letter that he wrote to Elinor Mary Dicey in …
