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Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier …
- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … possesses ’. This personage, a certain Miss Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of revealing letters …
- … from her to the end of his life. The Mostyn Owen and Darwin families were …
- … romance, and history. We know she read Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho , but it was …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
- … Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
- … most formidable to my ears ’. I had visions of M rs . Burton [the vicar’s wife] …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … when we shall meet once more at the Forest—& now you see M rs . Burton has been the cause of …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … , what would they think, of a Housemaid writing to M r Charles Darwin— ' That summer, …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … — We went six inside the family Van, your two sisters, M rs . Parker who is very corpulent …
- … Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), …
- … could offer. ‘If Fanny was not perhaps at this time M rs Biddulp, I would say poor dear Fanny …
- … been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the Mostyn Owen family, having had a …
- … while visiting Woodhouse in early 1835. Fanny & M r Biddulph were there and I …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwin’s work for the boundary between animals …
- … animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, family …
- … Controversy and Erasmus Darwin Darwin’s most recent book, Erasmus Darwin , had been …
- … generations. He continued to receive letters about Erasmus’s life and other bits of family history. …
- … Tindal, sent a cache of letters from two of Darwin’s grandfather’s clerical friends, full of lively …
- … the eagerness of the two learned divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin replied …
- … have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
- … delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
- … been co-authored with Ernst Krause, whose essay on Erasmus’s scientific work complemented Darwin’s …
- … much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
- … modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
- … and ‘decided on laying the matter before the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 …
- … and uncertain about what to do. He drafted two versions of a letter to the Athen æum , sending …
- … structural differentiations’ ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November 1880] ). George Romanes, …
- … Sarah Haliburton. She was one of the daughters of William Mostyn Owen, the squire of Woodhouse, …
- … & am never happy except when at work’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 25 December [1880] ). …
