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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, …
- … standing, and personal preference. George Romanes in his 1882 publication Animal intelligence …
- … set of selected letters is followed by letters relating to Darwin's 1881 publication …
- … throughout Variation . Letter 2395 - Darwin to Holland, Miss, [April 1860] …
- … anonymised and masculinised. Letter 3316 - Darwin to Nevill, D. F., [12 November …
- … Nevill is referenced by name for her “kindness” in Darwin’s Fertilisation of Orchids . …
- … critic. Letter 4370 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [April - May 1865] Darwin …
- … as “friends in Surrey”. Letter 4794 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [25 March 1865] …
- … B”. Letter 7060 - Wedgwood, F. J. to Darwin, [1867 - 72] Darwin’s …
- … in the final publication. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [9 June 1867 - …
- … in Expression . Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868 …
- … infants identified by name in Expression was novelist Elizabeth Gaskell for her description …
- … at him. Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s …
- … I can implicitly rely”. Letter 8427 - Darwin to Litchfield H. E., [25 July 1872] …
- … contribution to the same work was carefully referenced , Darwin made no mention of Henrietta’s …
Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … Earthworms and Wedgwood cousins As with many of Darwin's research topics, his …
- … about worms were written only months before he died in March 1882. In the same way that Darwin cast …
- … his nieces, Lucy and Sophy Wedgwood, the daughters of Emma Darwin's brother Josiah. Darwin …
- … Scientific evidence for the history of life Darwin chose to study earthworms in order to …
- … selection. His book Fertilisation of Orchids (1862) was Darwin's "flank movement …
- … was a study of incredible empirical detail that demonstrates Darwin's creative experimental …
- … (be it geology or evolutionary theory) was a subject that Darwin had contemplated from his earliest …
- … SOURCES Papers Darwin, C.R. 1840. On the formation of mould. Transactions of the …
- … and 3. Letters Letter 385 - Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood & Josiah …
- … were fertilised. Letter 8137 - William Darwin to Charles Darwin, 1 January 1872 …
- … of stone at Stonehenge. In his reply of two days later, Darwin wrote, “Your letter & facts are …
- … 8144 , 8169 , and 8171 - Between Charles Darwin and Lucy Wedgwood, January 1872 …
- … for her observations. Letter 12745 - Darwin to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October 1880 …
- … Letter 13406 - Mary Catherine Stanley (Lady Derby) to Darwin, 16 October 1881 Among …
- … and its significance. Letter 13632 - Darwin to John Murray, 21 January 1882 In …
- … magazine, Stephen Jay Gould argues for the importance of Darwin's last book and its centrality …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
- … Letters Darwin’s Notes On Marriage [April - July 1838] In these notes, …
- … of family, home and sociability. Letter 489 - Darwin to Wedgwood, E., [20 January 1839] …
- … theories, & accumulating facts in silence & solitude”. Darwin also comments that he has …
- … Letter 3715 - Claparède, J. L. R. A. E. to Darwin, [6 September 1862] Claparède …
- … are not those of her sex”. Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] …
- … critic”. Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel …
- … works”. Letter 4441 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [30 March 1864] Lydia Becker …
- … to study nature. Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., [20 November 1865] …
- … masculine nor pedantic”. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. B., [8 November 1869] …
- … , (1829). Letter 7329 - Murray, J. to Darwin, [28 September 1870] Written …
- … them ears”. Letter 8055 - Hennell, S. S. to Darwin, [7 November 1871] Sarah …
- … thinking”. Letter 8079 - Norton, S. R. to Darwin, [20 November 1871] Sarah …
- … Letter 13607 – Darwin to Kennard, C. A., [9 January 1882] Darwin responds to Caroline …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of …
- … Cameron, who seized this opportunity to portray both Darwin and Hooker – portraits that would come …
- … and in particular Hooker’s speech – a ‘Eulogium’ of Darwin, would represent a public victory for the …
- … such as to heighten the demand for images of Hooker and of Darwin himself. She was in any case a …
- … from Cameron’s portraits that included the one of Darwin, thought that ‘Something of what William …
- … done’, had been achieved by these photographs. Darwin was not a natural inhabitant of this …
- … characteristics of the four or five known photographs of Darwin which Cameron took in the summer of …
- … them romantically dishevelled and swathed in rough drapery, Darwin is wearing his usual conventional …
- … than a passing resemblance’ between these photographs and Darwin’s own engraved portrait of Leonardo …
- … one serves as frontispiece to R.B. Freeman’s Charles Darwin: A Companion . In another shot, he …
- … generous conviction’. Perhaps this was the photograph that Darwin sent to Germany at the request of …
- … captured by Cameron with great skill: in fact, her image of Darwin was such as to offset the …
- … of Descent of Man. Indeed, such ennobling images of Darwin fed into a perception of the superior …
- … that it was ‘Not a very successful picture, although Mr. Darwin was very pleased with it’. In fact …
- … revered sitter, Tennyson. Nevertheless, this photograph of Darwin was highly favoured, and had a …
- … actuality. Ernst Haeckel recalled his first impressions of Darwin on a visit to Down House in 1866: …
- … of Dr Johnson discoursing; and Cameron’s emphasis on Darwin’s domed skull is attuned to nineteenth …
- … intelligence. Relations between Cameron and the Darwin family continued to be very cordial, …
- … the role of her agent at the BAAS conference. He reported to Darwin at the end of August, ‘I have …
- … 28–30cm. vertically. Although the profile photograph of Darwin was reproduced as a lantern slide and …
- … a loss of most of the tonal subtlety of the original; as Darwin complained in a letter to Alfred …
- … 88202895; 88204450; 88204438, with a printed facsimile of Darwin’s signature. copyright …
- … prints references and bibliography Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, ‘Photography’, …
- … ‘Professor Haeckel on Darwin’ in Times (28 Sept. 1882), p. 6. Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. While it is likely that Darwin …
- … where we are not certain that the work cited is the one Darwin intended, we have prefixed the …
- … mark. Complete or partial runs of journals which Darwin recorded as having read or skimmed …
- … th . Hume’s Hist of England [Hume 1763]. to beginning of Elizabeth. Sept 14 th . 4 first …
- … never read his works ( Calendar no. 11875). In February 1882, however, after reading the …
- … on chemistry (Liebig 1851). 50 Probably Elizabeth Wedgwood. 51 This …
- … of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540 …
- … of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth. 12 vols. London. 1856–70. 128: …
- … London. *119: 21v., 22; 119: 19a Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. 1857. The life of …
- … by Mr. Boyer. London. [Other eds.] 119: 22b Gray, Elizabeth Caroline. 1840. Tour to the …
- … description of the universe . Translated [by Elizabeth Juliana Sabine] under the …
- … climates; with scientific elucidations . Translated by Elizabeth Juliana Sabine. 2 vols. London. …
- … London. *128: 178; 128: 9 [Rigby, Elizabeth]. 1846. Livonian tales. London. 119: …
- … with anecdotes of their courts, by Agnes Strickland and Elizabeth Strickland. 12 vols. London. …
- … the Polar Sea, in the years 1820–3 . Translated by Elizabeth Juliana Sabine. Edited by Edward …
Caroline Kennard
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Kennard’s interest in science stemmed from her social commitments to the women's movement, her interests in nature study as a tool for educational reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a…
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- … M. Severance, Edna D. Cheney, Lucy Stone, Lucy Goddard, Elizabeth P. Peabody, and Dr. Marie E. …
- … but inferior intellectual qualities when compared to men. Darwin noted that given the observations …
- … this would cause harm to the domestic sphere. On 28 January 1882, Kennard wrote back to Darwin, …
