Erasmus Darwin

At least in her mature years, AS had a low opinion of marriage, though there were various stories of her nearly marrying (or wishing to marry) various men beginning with Erasmus Darwin , then her...

By the age of nine or ten EAP was attending science lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy and others at the Royal Institution in London. One commentator, Desmond King-Hele , argues that she gathered...