Charles Darwin

AG deals briskly and summarily with new scientific ideas, apparently with reference to Darwin 's Origin of Species (dating from fourteen years earlier). Mr Chetwynd, though he doubts the efficacy of the individual's direct line...

The poem burlesqued social conservatism in the accents of a reform Darwin ist through the resolution of a prehistoric Eohippus to become a horse (evolution converting his middle finger-nail into a hoof), and of an...

It follows protagonist John Robertson after he awakens from a thirty-year bout of amnesia in 1940. John quickly learns that much has changed in America (particularly the New York City area) since 1910. The...

KBG 's father, Samuel Conway , was a Congregational minister, who was apparently given to quoting John Stuart Mill in his sermons and found little to dispute in Darwin 's The Origin of Species.

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

The Heavenly Twins, SG 's most famous novel, treats a variety of social and gender issues, including female sexuality, unhappy marriages, women's social roles, the sexual double standard, and venereal disease. Ideala, heroine of...

DG 's essay presents a religiously-based argument emphasizing the importance of education and instruction for those with mental or physical disabilities. She reminds her readers that these conditions are to be looked upon as the...

HJ travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot , George Henry Lewes , and Charles Darwin .

She calls on popular women writers to assert their claim to national recognition for fear that male voices (such as Huxley , Darwin , and Tyndall ) will dominate, leaving nothing for discussion except...

She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She...

Kendall and Lang use the genre of social satire to introduce significant debates between science and the supernatural, of a kind which recur throughout her poetry. These debates are often staged between men and creatures...

Nothing concrete is known about MK 's schooling. As the daughter of a minister she probably received a better education than most. She was clearly well-read, most notably in the sciences. It seems, from the...

He was impressed with the specimens she had collected while in West Africa, and encouraged her to continue. Like Kingsley, both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace admitted to being highly indebted to Günther and...

As the major influences on her in anthropological theory MK cites Charles Darwin , Edward Burnett Tylor 's Primitive Culture, and A. B. Ellis 's The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking, and Yoruba Speaking Peoples...

Her mother, Christine, a trained biologist, was an atheist on Darwin ian grounds and given to intellectual debate with her father, a believing Christian. Neither of her parents belonged to the Communist Party.