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Connections
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|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland
), JMS
grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He... |
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
| Education | C. E. Plumptre | 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... |
| Education | Winifred Peck | 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. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1952. 12 |
| Education | May Kendall | Nothing concrete is known about MK
's schooling. As the daughter of a minister she probably received a better education than most. She was clearly well-read, most notably in the sciences. It seems, from the... |
| Education | Mary Kingsley | He was impressed with the specimens she had collected while in West Africa, and encouraged her to continue. Like Kingsley, both Charles Darwin
and Alfred Russel Wallace
admitted to being highly indebted to Günther and... |
| Education | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
attended Downe House School
, which then occupied Charles Darwin
's former house at Downe inKent. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 38, 43 |
| Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
| Education | Anne Ridler | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | 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
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Wedgwood | JW
, along with her two younger brothers, stayed with their uncle by marriage, the famous scientist Charles Darwin
, at his country house, Downe in Kent. Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx. xii-iii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | 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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Timeline
1831-1836: Charles Darwin's journey as naturalist on...
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1831-1836
Charles Darwin
's journey as naturalist on board The Beagle laid the foundation for his work on evolution.
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965. 343, 371
Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
146
1839: Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches...
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1839
Charles Darwin
published Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, 1832-1836.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...
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1844
The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers
's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin
and Alfred Wallace
.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
310
Yeo, Richard. Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
113-14, 232-3
Hill, Rosemary. “Snakes and Leeches”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 1, 4 Jan. 2018, pp. 23-5. 25
By 1851: The early volumes of Alexander von Humboldt's...
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By 1851
The early volumes of Alexander von Humboldt
's Kosmos (published between 1845 and 1862) had sold 80,000 copies.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
95
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965. 98, 343
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wonder, Simon. “An adorable explorer”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Dec. 2015, pp. 36-7.
36
1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...
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1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100
1857: Philip Gosse published Omphalos, a Creationist...
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1857
Philip Gosse
published Omphalos, a Creationist approach to evolution which attempted to explain the existence of Adam's navel.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
103-4
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1 July 1858: Papers on the theory of natural selection...
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1 July 1858
Papers on the theory of natural selection by Alfred Russel Wallace
and Charles Darwin
were read at a meeting of the Linnean Society
.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. “Introduction”. Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 1-8.
3, 5
: Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary...
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Spring 1859
Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary arguments for human antiquity appeared, scant months before Darwin
's Origin of Species was published.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
182
24 November 1859: Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species...
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24 November 1859
Charles Darwin
published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; or, The Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Gallant, Roy A. Charles Darwin: The Making of a Scientist. Doubleday, 1972.
150
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
24 November 2009
Shapin, Steven. “The Darwin Show”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 7 Jan. 2010, pp. 3-9. 3, 6
30 June 1860: T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce...
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30 June 1860
T. H. Huxley
and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
clashed over evolution at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
at Oxford.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
330
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
124-5
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 June 2011
1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...
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1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
163
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
163
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
264-5
1867-1870: During this period, photographer Julia Margaret...
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1867-1870
During this period, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
took some of her best known portraits of famous men.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
95-6
By 4 March 1871: Charles Darwin published another important...
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By 4 March 1871
Charles Darwin
published another important scientific work, The Descent of Man.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2262 (1871): 275
Rosser, Sue V., and A. Charlotte Hogsett. “Darwin and Sexism: Victorian Causes, Contemporary Effects”. Feminist Visions: Toward a Transformation of the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Diane L. Fowlkes and Charlotte S. McClure, University of Alabama Press, 1984.
44
1881: The Land Nationalisation Society was founded...
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1881
The Land Nationalisation Society
was founded by Alfred Russel Wallace
and others to work for the abolition of private ownership of land.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. “Introduction”. Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 1-8.
4, 7
Texts
Darwin, Emma, and Charles Darwin. Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896. Editor Litchfield, Henrietta Emma, J. Murray, 1915, 2 vols.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel et al. H.M.S. Beagle in South America. Watts, 1930.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. John Murray, 1859.