Patrick Geddes

Standard Name: Geddes, Patrick

Connections

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Friends, Associates Annie S. Swan
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 treatiseThe Evolution of Sex.

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