Charles Darwin

JA 's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney , Anne Grant , Mary Ann Kelty , Maria Callcott , Maria Jane Jewsbury , Harriet Martineau

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...

In the course of her life, AB explored many facets of religion and politics. Early in her life she entertained a passionate Christian devotion and was inspired by the idea of sacrifice, even martyrdom. She...

LSB privately printed Key Notes, her first, slim collection of verses, under the pseudonym Arbor Leigh, containing philosophical reflections on evolution.

The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian evolution. Eijun Senaha argues that they also reflect Emerson 's transcendentalism.

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...

This essay embodies moments of what today would be called racism as it makes reference to social Darwinism (the theory originated by LSB 's friend Herbert Spencer , that extrapolates Darwinian evolutionary theory to justify...

ABB opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin 's and Herbert Spencer 's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries...

Studies in General Science was written around the same time that the works of evolutionary theorists Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer were gaining popularity. With belief in traditional Christian doctrine now threatened by scientific discovery,...

The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for...

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...

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.

EB attended Downe House School , which then occupied Charles Darwin 's former house at Downe inKent.

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. .

In Sic Vos Non VobiAC rejects accepted knowledge of the spiritual realm. Instead, the speaker sympathizes with the scientific community of Darwinian evolutionary theorists who search for Truth and Right with steadfast hearts in...