Erasmus Darwin

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Standard Name: Darwin, Erasmus,, 1731 - 1802
Used Form: Erasmus Darwin

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi , Charlotte Smith , Edward Gibbon , Erasmus Darwin 's The Loves of the Plants...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS published through Joseph JohnsonMemoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin , chiefly during his residence at Lichfield, with Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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Textual Features Priscilla Wakefield
Shteir notes that the teachings of Tournefort as well as Linnaeus are invoked. Wakefield expounds Linnean taxonomy, using as her examples such native British plants as would be easy for amateur botanists to observe around...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features Maria Riddell
MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...
Author summary Anna Seward
AS , living at a distance from London, was nevertheless a woman of letters, of the later eighteenth century and just beyond. She staked her claim to fame firstly on her poetry (though she was...
Author summary Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR , a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
Occupation Maria Elizabetha Jacson
MEJ became a keen and knowledgeable botanist who carried out her own experiments (into the function of nectar, for instance) and made coloured sketches of plants. Erasmus Darwin praised her coloured drawing of the Venus...
Literary responses Anne Damer
AD 's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass...
Literary responses Maria Elizabetha Jacson
On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin and Sir Brooke Boothby wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that...
Literary responses Frances Arabella Rowden
The Anti-Jacobin, while acknowledging that FAR had avoided Darwin 's faults as far as possible, wished she had not followed him at all. The Poetical Register, however, found her work elegant, and that...
Leisure and Society Anna Seward
She was a keen concert-goer (partly, no doubt, because of her involvement with the musician John Saville ). She attended music festivals at both Manchester and Birmingham.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
134, 233
She also enjoyed keeping pets...
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Beeton
As it turned out, however, most of the recipes and information in the book came from published sources, though two popular cookery books directed at the middle classes, Hannah Glasse 's The Art of Cookery...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

Timeline

1765: The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group...

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1765

The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of half a dozen men with interests in experimental science, began to meet regularly.

1770: The Lichfield Circle began to develop at...

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1770

The Lichfield Circle began to develop at Lichfield in Staffordshire; the group advocated reform of women's education away from time-filling accomplishments such as japanning and toward intellectual learning.

1780: James Watt (building on Erasmus Darwin's...

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1780

James Watt (building on Erasmus Darwin 's production two years earlier of a mechanically copied letter) marketed a copier for documents which enabled him to make multiple copies of contracts.

1789: Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the...

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1789

Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the Plants, as the second part of his scientificpoemThe Botanic Garden.

1797: Erasmus Darwin's A Plan for the Conduct of...

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1797

Erasmus Darwin 's A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools was published.

Texts

Darwin, Erasmus. A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools. J. Johnson, 1797.