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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. …
- … were friends, and Darwin was regularly invited to shoot with Fanny’s brothers at Woodhouse, the …
- … 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 …
- … to her housemaid, and Woodhouse was The Forest. Fanny’s teasing and familiar tone, as well as …
- … After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her older sister, Sarah, both …
- … in Edinburgh. ‘I never saw such merry, agreeable girls as Fanny and Sarah are’, she reported, ‘ …
- … to England, and are longing to return to France. ’ Fanny did not return to France, but she indulged …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her …
- … costs. Scandal and mystery Fanny’s first letters to her ‘dear Postillion’ …
- … ’. Darwin, however, did leave Shrewsbury before Fanny’s return, following his father’s …
- … Cambridge University with the aim of becoming a clergyman. Fanny’s slow response to the news of …
- … to say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am …
- … of the Beagle sailing, Fanny was engaged to Robert Myddelton Biddulph of Chirk Castle. ‘ I hope …
- … however, lay doubts. Fanny had already been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the …
- … cared for him as much as her previous suitor. By the time Biddulph had decided on the financial …
- … Fanny told Darwin of her forthcoming marriage to Robert Myddelton Biddulph, whom, she thought, …
- … Woodhouse in early 1835. Fanny & M r Biddulph were there and I found her quite as …
- … grace of the ‘ very handsome & gentlemanlike ’ Robert Myddelton Biddulph was his fondness for …
- … after Fanny’s marriage, ‘ the old Mother, M rs Biddulph is so odious to her, and M r Biddulph …
