Charles Darwin

Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of...

The Heavenly Twins, SG 's most famous novel, treats a variety of social and gender issues, including female sexuality, unhappy marriages, women's social roles, the sexual double standard, and venereal disease. Ideala, heroine of...

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...

She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She...

ABB opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin 's and Herbert Spencer 's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries...

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...

While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The...

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...

She calls on popular women writers to assert their claim to national recognition for fear that male voices (such as Huxley , Darwin , and Tyndall ) will dominate, leaving nothing for discussion except...

The poem burlesqued social conservatism in the accents of a reform Darwin ist through the resolution of a prehistoric Eohippus to become a horse (evolution converting his middle finger-nail into a hoof), and of an...

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

AWE published Darwin 's Moon: A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace. It was reprinted in 1986.

RP published a poetry volume entitled Darwin : A Life in Poems.

She dedicated it on 24 July To the late Charles Darwin , Esq. . . . by one who was honoured with his friendship, and to whom his works have ever been a source of...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...