Their friends at this period of their lives included song-writer Alexander Anderson
, social reformers Patrick Geddes
and his wife
, and theologian Robert Flint
(who introduced them to Oliver Wendell Holmes
). They knew...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothy Richardson
In The Tunnel Miriam begins to interrogate past and current scientific discourses on women. She is a highly critical reader of Social Darwinism
, and of Patrick Geddes
and his research assistant J. Arthur Thomson
Timeline
January 1885: Scientist and urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes...
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January 1885
Scientist and urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes
founded the Edinburgh Social Union
to undertake the cultural renewal and regeneration of Old Edinburgh using art, beauty and education.
Urquhart, Graham. “Patrick Geddes and the Edinburgh Social Union”. Patrick Geddes.
1889: Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson published...
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1889
Patrick Geddes
and J. Arthur Thomson
published their anti-feminist treatise The Evolution of Sex.
Mosedale, Susan Sleeth. “Science Corrupted: Victorian Biologists Consider ’The Woman Question’”. Journal of the History of Biology, Vol.
11
, No. 1, D. Reidel, 1 Mar.–31 May 1978, pp. 1-55.
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Jann, Rosemary. “Revising the Descent of Woman: Eliza Burt Gamble”. Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir, University of Wisconsin Press, 1997, pp. 147-63.
