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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Among the essays, The Feminine Animal starts from Darwin
's law of evolution, which O'Brien takes to be in some sense proved. O’Brien, Charlotte Grace. Charlotte Grace O’Brien. Editor Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, Maunsel. 183 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Naden | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Naden | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Naden | 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... |
Publishing | Constance Naden | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Meteyard | 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
,... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 281 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | 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... |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | 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... |
Textual Production | Jane Loudon | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Kristeva | 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. Kristeva, Julia. Julia Kristeva, Interviews. Editor Guberman, Ross, Columbia University Press. 138, 49 Miller, Lucasta. “Mother complex”. The Guardian, p. Review 11. 11 |
Education | Mary Kingsley | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Kingsley | 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... |
Education | May Kendall | 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... |
Textual Features | May Kendall | 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... |
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