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Darwin’s first love
Summary
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 followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would be little trace of his …
- … Shropshire possesses ’. This personage, a certain Miss Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of …
- … and what Darwin’s hopes might have been regarding Fanny when he embarked on the Beagle voyage. …
- … from her to the end of his life. The Mostyn Owen and Darwin families were …
- … of Woodhouse. The high-spirited, fun-loving Fanny, two years older than Darwin, clearly …
- … are escaping creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others …
- … sister Catherine. After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her older …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her …
- … wrote over the first set of writing. Before the Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. …
- … her older sister, Sarah, were visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … When Darwin did not return to Shrewsbury for Christmas 1829, though she had ‘fully expected’ to see …
- … Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), …
- … been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the Mostyn Owen family, having had a …
- … Catherine thought him ‘a dissipated, gambling character’[154], and did not believe Fanny cared for …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … . In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a …
- … the Beagle voyage. However, Darwin seemingly declined Mostyn Owen’s offer, and the fate of Fanny …
- … 1840 computer-readable date 1840-03-01 to 1840-03-31 medium and …
- … Down House MSS, Darwin’s account books, entry for Dec. 1839. Joseph Hooker, letter to Darwin, 17 …
- … letter to Charles, 11 Oct. [1866] (DCP-LETT-5238). Arthur Mostyn Owen, letters to Darwin, 21 and 28 …
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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- … Erasmus’s life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles …
- … to his daughter Henrietta ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] ). ‘The world will only …
- … Sarah Haliburton. She was one of the daughters of William Mostyn Owen, the squire of Woodhouse, …
- … contact with Sarah put him in mind to call on her sister, Fanny, with whom he had been on romantic …
