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Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
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... |
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. 38, 43 |
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. 12 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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, p. xi - xxx. xii-iii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Kristeva | 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. Kristeva, Julia. Julia Kristeva, Interviews. Editor Guberman, Ross, Columbia University Press. 138, 49 Miller, Lucasta. “Mother complex”. The Guardian, p. Review 11. 11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Meteyard | William Meteyard
, EM
's father, was an army surgeon. He was an amateur classicist and antiquary and encouraged his daughter's intellectual interests. He also came to know the Darwin family through Robert Darwin
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | 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. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 59 |