Charles Darwin

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a brilliant taxonomist who also envisioned plants as competing with each other for space and resources: a concept which influenced Charles Darwin ). In summer this same year JL had...

In this novel and in one which followed the next year, Lost and Won, AMM voiced disapproval of novel-reading and its potentially corrupting influence. She preferred an improving tone for fiction and criticized a...

Rachel, a paleontologist in her seventies (a curator at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington), is faced by her own intellectual shift away from the Darwin inian gradualism which she has always believed...

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...

William Meteyard , EM 's father, was an army surgeon. He was an amateur classicist and antiquary and encouraged his daughter's intellectual interests. He also came to know the Darwin family through Robert Darwin ,...

William R. Hughes counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v...

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...

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...

The remaining, shorter poems in the volume continue to blend modern scientific and philosophical learning with traditional romantic themes. In many of them the touches of sardonic humour visible in the longer poems become the...

Among the essays, The Feminine Animal starts from Darwin 's law of evolution, which O'Brien takes to be in some sense proved. She scans the findings of science for their non-literal interpretation, and finds...

RP published a poetry volume entitled Darwin : A Life in Poems.

RP has expressed pride in her grandmother Nora (Darwin) Barlow , editor from the manuscript of Charles Darwin 's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle", published in 1933. This was, says Padel, the...

Another great-great-grandfather was the scientist Charles Darwin . RP has written that the first time it really impinged was at school: we had to write an essay on the life of a scientist, and I...

The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin 's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...