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Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for …
- … astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
- … most surprising was Darwin’s willingness to provide Becker with material for an education initiative …
- … Literary Society. On December 22nd 1866 Becker wrote to Darwin to ask if he would “be so very …
- … materials for a feminist organisation is unclear, although Becker’s use of headed paper and the …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … to women. Letter 10746 – Darwin to Dicey, E. M., [1877] Darwin gives his …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
