Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin.
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Textual Features | Mary Somerville | Replete with nearly two hundred illustrations, On Molecular and Microscopic Science is divided into three sections: Atoms and Molecules of Matter, Vegetable Organisms, and Animal Organisms. The text considers the molecular makeup of matter and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. Mary F. Robinson | The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer
engraving. Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin. 7-9, 37 |
Other Life Event | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | 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... |
Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | In The Tunnel Miriam begins to interrogate past and current scientific discourses on women. She is a highly critical reader of Social Darwinism
, and of Patrick Geddes
and his research assistant J. Arthur Thomson |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
Education | Winifred Peck | From there WP
went to board at the newly founded Wycombe Abbey School
(as one of its first intake of forty), which she calls at least twenty years ahead of its time. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber. 12 |
Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | RP
published a poetry volume entitled Darwin
: A Life in Poems. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | 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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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