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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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  • … those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless …
  • … from both women and men. Were women a target audience? Letter
  • … Tollet for proofreading and criticisms of style. Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. …
  • … obscure, even after it had been proofread and edited by “a lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W …
  • … her to read to check that she can understand it. Letter 7312 - Darwin to Darwin, F. …
  • … he seeks her help with tone and style. Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 …
  • … in order to minimise impeding general perusal. Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, …
  • … he uses to avoid ownership of indelicate content. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to …
  • … so as not to lose the interest of women. Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, …
  • … which will make it more appealing to women. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to …
  • … Darwin’s female readership Letter 5391 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [6 February …
  • … Literary Society . Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to Darwin, [13 January 1869] …
  • … which is a revelation. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. L. B., [8 November, 1869] …
  • … to him only as a scientific author, Darwin assumes that 'A. B. Blackwell' is a man. …
  • … Spencer. Letter 7624 - Bathoe, M . B. to Darwin, [25 March 1871] Mary …
  • … thinking”. Letter 8778 - Forster, L. M . to Darwin, H. E., [20 February …
  • Letter 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B. to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick …
  • Letter 10415 - Darwin to Herrick, S. M. B., [6 March 1876] Darwin responds to a …
  • … it be required. Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] …
  • … of variation”. Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to Darwin, [13 January 1869] …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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  • … Emma, Darwin weighed the pros and cons of married life for a man of science. In his notes, Darwin …
  • … feminine world of family, home and sociability. Letter 489 - Darwin to Wedgwood, E., …
  • … an hour “with poor Mrs. Lyell sitting by”. Letter 3715 - Claparède, J. L. R. A. E. to …
  • … she has read Lamarck’s work under her own steam and is a “first rate critic”. Letter 4377 …
  • … ornaments in the making of feminine works”. Letter 4441 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [30 …
  • … the young, especially ladies, to study nature. Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., …
  • … Anderson is “neither masculine nor pedantic”. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. B., …
  • … the Royal Society library. Kovalevsky would like to read a book by Jacobi on elliptic and theta …
  • … to prick up what little is left of them ears”. Letter 8055 - Hennell, S. S. to Darwin, …
  • … but has not read the pamphlet herself. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, [16 May …
  • … narrative so not to lose the interest of women. Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, …
  • … flood”. Letter 13414 - Darwin to Harrison, L., [18 October 1881] Darwin …