Charles Darwin

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...

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...

HJ travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot , George Henry Lewes , and Charles Darwin .

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...

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...

KBG 's father, Samuel Conway , was a Congregational minister, who was apparently given to quoting John Stuart Mill in his sermons and found little to dispute in Darwin 's The Origin of Species.

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

It follows protagonist John Robertson after he awakens from a thirty-year bout of amnesia in 1940. John quickly learns that much has changed in America (particularly the New York City area) since 1910. The...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...