Charles Darwin

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.

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...

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...

As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...

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...

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...

AG deals briskly and summarily with new scientific ideas, apparently with reference to Darwin 's Origin of Species (dating from fourteen years earlier). Mr Chetwynd, though he doubts the efficacy of the individual's direct line...

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...

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...

LB 's early interest in plants developed into her first publication. Her uncle John Leigh helped her develop her knowledge of botany, and LB won a national prize in the 1860s for a specimen...

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...

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

The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years. Its reception in literary circles was...

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...

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