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Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for …
- … of Charles Darwin. Most of the correspondence between Becker and Darwin, starting with a …
- … most surprising was Darwin’s willingness to provide Becker with material for an education initiative …
- … Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. On December 22nd 1866 Becker wrote to Darwin to ask if he …
- … materials for a feminist organisation is unclear, although Becker’s use of headed paper and the …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
