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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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- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … possesses ’. This personage, a certain Miss Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of revealing letters …
- … from her to the end of his life. The Mostyn Owen and Darwin families were …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
- … Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
- … ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
- … Darwin that she would remember him. Responding to a recent letter he had written in a ‘ Blue …
- … there was not to be an end of them!! In her last letter before the Beagle sailed, she …
- … Little wonder that Darwin felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, …
- … 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, …
- … man, and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … youth survive, although more may once have existed . In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, …
- … the Beagle voyage. However, Darwin seemingly declined Mostyn Owen’s offer, and the fate of Fanny …
- … estimate of Richmond’s work can be gauged from a letter which Hooker wrote to Darwin some years …
- … puzzlingly, she said there that it belonged to her brother William, not to herself: did he give it …
- … account books, entry for Dec. 1839. Joseph Hooker, letter to Darwin, 17 March 1862 (DCP-LETT-3474). …
- … this seemingly conflicts with the indications in Erasmus’s letter of 1866, quoted above. …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … my grandfather’s character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). …
- … have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
- … . ‘In an endeavour to explain away y r . treatment of [William Alvey Darwin],’ George wrote on …
- … delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
- … much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
- … modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
- … and ‘decided on laying the matter before the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 …
- … and uncertain about what to do. He drafted two versions of a letter to the Athen æum , sending …
- … in which he will have the last word’, she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] …
- … who will fight to the end’, added her husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February …
- … him & given him Darwinophobia? It is a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February …
- … squashing the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). …
- … inches of soil as a protection against enemies.’ ‘Your letter … made me open my eyes’, Gray replied …
- … his original description. Darwin was puzzled: ‘If my letter opened your eyes, yours has opened mine …
- … to the same species, should behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But …
- … of the plant in its native habitat. He forwarded a letter from a botanist and schoolteacher in …
- … friend, Sarah Haliburton. She was one of the daughters of William Mostyn Owen, the squire of …
- … to check for castings on old furrows in Wales, and wrote to William on 18 June , ‘I very much …
- … He tried to interest the chief secretary for Ireland, William Edward Forster, and when that failed, …
- … . Darwin was also touched by the loss of his second cousin William Darwin Fox. They had been at …
- … health and difficulties with physical theory. He encouraged William’s interest in geology, and …
