Charles Darwin

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...

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...

Her mother, Christine, a trained biologist, was an atheist on Darwin ian grounds and given to intellectual debate with her father, a believing Christian. Neither of her parents belonged to the Communist Party.

Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.

The Hogarth Press began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library. Freud's theories circulated around VW for...

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

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 ,...

This friendship was cemented during visits to Linlathen in Forfarshire, the home of Thomas Erskine , who was himself a major spiritual influence on JW . Her letters to Gurney mention meetings with Darwin

Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane , Labour leader Arthur Henderson , Liberal politician Herbert Samuel , G. B. Shaw , and political psychologist Graham Wallas , the last two both Fabians. They...

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...

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...