Charles Darwin

The title piece, from April 1871, was an admiring review of Darwin 's The Descent of Man: she considered it doubtless one whose issue will make an era in the history of modern thought...

The remaining, shorter poems in the volume continue to blend modern scientific and philosophical learning with traditional romantic themes. In many of them the touches of sardonic humour visible in the longer poems become the...

LSB privately printed Key Notes, her first, slim collection of verses, under the pseudonym Arbor Leigh, containing philosophical reflections on evolution.

DG 's essay presents a religiously-based argument emphasizing the importance of education and instruction for those with mental or physical disabilities. She reminds her readers that these conditions are to be looked upon as the...

This essay embodies moments of what today would be called racism as it makes reference to social Darwinism (the theory originated by LSB 's friend Herbert Spencer , that extrapolates Darwinian evolutionary theory to justify...

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...

Studies in General Science was written around the same time that the works of evolutionary theorists Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer were gaining popularity. With belief in traditional Christian doctrine now threatened by scientific discovery,...

As a child Mary Meredith (later MW ) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine.

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...

The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for...

As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...

As the major influences on her in anthropological theory MK cites Charles Darwin , Edward Burnett Tylor 's Primitive Culture, and A. B. Ellis 's The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking, and Yoruba Speaking Peoples...

This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...

Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...

The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years. Its reception in literary circles was...