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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 …
- … Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would be little trace of his …
- … 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 …
- … a warmth of character that was first noted by Darwin’s sister Catherine. After staying a week at …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her …
- … Scandal and mystery Fanny’s first letters to her ‘dear Postillion’ were sent …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … Swallowtail Papilio macheon. © Iain H. Leach. ( https://www.iainleachphotography.com ) …
- … 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 …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), …
- … ’. Darwin’s delight in the world created by Fanny Owen in the forest of her own imagination, …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
