Charles Darwin

JW published The Boundaries of Science in Macmillan's Magazine: a critique of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary thinking which was admired by Darwin (her uncle by marriage).

After this MB published, in 1872, a selected edition of Shelley 's poems with a memoir, and in 1886 a fourteen-page, privately printed pamphlet entitled Shelley 's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin 's.

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...

After the scandal, those involved returned to lives of relative anonymity. The impact on Edward Lane 's professional life was negligible. He continued to recieve patients at Moor Park (among them Charles Darwin ), and...

Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the...

CN wrote a letter on this date thanking for a favourable review. The Story of Claricewas written during her convalescence, after a sharp attack of illness, in 1886, just as other poems dated from...

The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years. Its reception in literary circles was...

Ross 's epilogue both praises FD 's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin , John Wesley , and Voltaire .

The Ascent of Man was hailed in the press. The Academy reviewer wrote: A reviewer who is so fortunate as to light on a book like this, lays it down with regret, and fears that...

Leighton and Reynolds suggest that this poem, together with Barrett Browning 's Aurora Leigh, is one of the few bold attempts to tackle the woman question in verse and it is clearly influenced by...

This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...

Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...

LB 's early interest in plants developed into her first publication. Her uncle John Leigh helped her develop her knowledge of botany, and LB won a national prize in the 1860s for a specimen...

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...