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Julia Wedgwood

Summary

Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…

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  • to his work. One of the foremost was his niece, Julia Wedgwood. She was the eldest child of
  • the first intakes at both Queens and Bedford Colleges in 1848 and 1849. Her teachers included James
  • on religion and Eliots irregular private life. Wedgwoods  The Moral Ideal , the outcome
  • to devote her time to her work. Emma Darwin was irritated by Wedgwood family criticism of this
  • said, “to have been something larger than I am”. Wedgwoods reactions to Darwins work went
  • of Science”, about  On the Origin of Species . Wedgwood welcomed Darwins discoveries and sought
  • rare event with my critics”. ( Charles Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood, 11 July [1861] .) Wedgwood
  • of its authorship. (The other was by Alfred Wallace.) In it Wedgwood largely avoided the debate on
  • her conclusion she reclaimed Darwin as a Theist. When Fanny Wedgwood disclosed the reviews
  • with approbation.” ( Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood, [March 1871?] .) In 1885, …
  • religion in the biography of him Frank Darwin was preparing, Wedgwood was invited by her cousin, …
  • sons rejected it as not what Darwin had written and Wedgwood stepped back from the continuing family
  • the Darwin sons but was accepted by Emma Darwin, with whom Wedgwood remained on close terms until
  • the head”. Sources: Sue BrownJulia Wedgwood, the unexpected Victorian: the
  • Nineteenth Century Series, 2022) Jose Harris, ‘Wedgwood, (Frances) Julia (18331913)’, …
  • 1348; 4 (1861): 237-47. Wedgwood Barbara and Hensleigh Wedgwood. 1980. The Wedgwood Circle

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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  • … 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. Alison 1848]— (read) Montagus Translat of Visa …
  • … 1834] (& of Europe?) [Gould 1832–7] & of Australia [Gould 1848]; well worth studying for …
  • … [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs  Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & …
  • … [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming …
  • … 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44  (read) Bethunes …
  • … Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] Lamb’s Letters [Lamb 1837] (read) …
  • … [Godwin 1835] Brookes last Journal by Mundy [Mundy 1848] Goldsmiths life by Forster …
  • … Charing Cross—sells Johnstons Maps [A. K. Johnston 1848] separately—Forbes is going to publish one. …
  • … Emotions by G. Ramsay B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of …
  • … 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850 …
  • … Christian K.. Soc [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1848] 81 March 30 th . Life …
  • … Brown 1824, 1814, 1818]. [DAR 119: 21a] 1848 . Jan 1. Reports & …
  • … 25. Bunbury Journal of Residence at C. of Good Hope [Bunbury 1848] March. 5. Memoires de la …
  • … 12. Arthur Adams. Notes from Journal of Nat. Hist. [Belcher 1848] May Kosmos [?A. von …
  • … 7 th  Supplements to Müllers Physiology [Baly and Kirkes 1848] 17 th  Thompson’s Birds of …
  • … Oct 5. Gould Introduct. to Birds of Australia [Gould 1848] —— 20 Billing’s Voyage to N. Sea …
  • … ] up to Tom IX inclusive [DAR 119: 21b] 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone …
  • … July 20. Sterlings Memoir of by Hare [Sterling 1848]— moderately good Campbells Chancellors …
  • … Eyre [Brontë] 1847]— Kelly’s & O’Kellys [Trollope 1848]— M r  Warrenne [E. Wallace 1848
  • … Autobiography of a Working Man. A Somerville [A. Somerville 1848] (excellent) 28. M. …
  • … & Gould Principles of Zoology Vol I. [Agassiz and Gould 1848] 30. Hom. de Hells Travels …
  • … 5 th . Miss Martineau. Eastern Travels [H. Martineau 1848], curious & interesting …
  • … 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White [Collins 1860] } Hensleigh [DAR *128: 151] …
  • … with ‘X’ in brown crayon. 101  Fanny Hensleigh, i.e., Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood. …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … sends a list of plants from Gray’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to append the ranges of …
  • … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin catches up on personal …
  • … Letter 1189 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., 2 July [1848] Darwin criticises the lecturing …
  • … Letter 1176 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, Emma, [20–1 May 1848] Darwin writes to his wife Emma. …
  • … well as sister Catherine’s and his own. He also notes that Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has …