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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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- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
- … ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
- … been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the Mostyn Owen family, having had a …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
