Charles Darwin

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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

RP has expressed pride in her grandmother Nora (Darwin) Barlow , editor from the manuscript of Charles Darwin 's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle", published in 1933. This was, says Padel, the...

Another great-great-grandfather was the scientist Charles Darwin . RP has written that the first time it really impinged was at school: we had to write an essay on the life of a scientist, and I...

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...

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...