Charles Darwin

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...

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. Its founder...

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...

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 ,...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the...

Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland ), JMS grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He...

The origin of the title has not been established: it may have come from Sir Walter Scott 's Peveril of the Peak, or from any one of the several place-names in which this element...

As a child Mary Meredith (later MW ) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine.

Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane , Labour leader Arthur Henderson , Liberal politician Herbert Samuel , G. B. Shaw , and political psychologist Graham Wallas , the last two both Fabians. They...