Charles Darwin

Ross 's epilogue both praises FD 's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin , John Wesley , and Voltaire .

Theodora is clever, rich (and destined to lose her fortune if she marries), and understood to be peculiar or extraordinary; her admirer Cecil contrasts her to the conventional opening-primrose type of woman for having a...

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

The whole family of Darwins and their relations formed almost a separate society—gentle, religiously agnostic, geared to scholarship but not to worldly success—both at Cambridge, where they all lived near each other, and on visits...

FPC wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin , and she published anecdotes...

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...

The title piece, from April 1871, was an admiring review of Darwin 's The Descent of Man: she considered it doubtless one whose issue will make an era in the history of modern thought...

Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Huxley , Francis Galton , Edward Carpenter , John A. Hobson , and Sidney Webb . She was also inspired...

Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.

In Sic Vos Non VobiAC rejects accepted knowledge of the spiritual realm. Instead, the speaker sympathizes with the scientific community of Darwinian evolutionary theorists who search for Truth and Right with steadfast hearts in...

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

EB attended Downe House School , which then occupied Charles Darwin 's former house at Downe inKent.

The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for...

The Ascent of Man was hailed in the press. The Academy reviewer wrote: A reviewer who is so fortunate as to light on a book like this, lays it down with regret, and fears that...