Charles Darwin

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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 ,...

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.

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...

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...

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.

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...