Charles Darwin

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...

In this novel and in one which followed the next year, Lost and Won, AMM voiced disapproval of novel-reading and its potentially corrupting influence. She preferred an improving tone for fiction and criticized a...

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...

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...

Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Huxley , Francis Galton , Edward Carpenter , John A. Hobson , and Sidney Webb . She was also inspired...

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...

Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of...

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...

Replete with nearly two hundred illustrations, On Molecular and Microscopic Science is divided into three sections: Atoms and Molecules of Matter, Vegetable Organisms, and Animal Organisms. The text considers the molecular makeup of matter and...

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 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...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a brilliant taxonomist who also envisioned plants as competing with each other for space and resources: a concept which influenced Charles Darwin ). In summer this same year JL had...

DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

TW 's play After Darwin, exploring the conflict between naturalist Charles Darwin and ship's captain Robert Fitzroy , was produced at Hampstead Theatre , in London.