Charles Darwin

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...