Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 370
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Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deborah Heiligman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1429934956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
Author: Henrietta Emma Litchfield
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim M. Berra
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0199309442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much has been written about the life and work of Charles Darwin, the lives of his wife and ten children remain largely unexamined. How did Darwin reconcile his own metaphysical views with those of his wife Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin and a devout Unitarian? Did his consanguineous marriage contribute to three of his children's young deaths, and how did these deaths affect both Darwin and his wife? And how did Darwin's death affect his surviving family? Most accounts of Charles Darwin's life end with his death, but Tim Berra's Darwin and His Children: His Other Legacy moves past this moment in time, examining the distinct lives of Charles Darwin's wife and children, both in relation to him and as their own characters living, and dying, separately in the wake of their father's success. The book will feature a synopsis of the development of Darwin's beliefs, work, and marriage, and then discuss the role these played in each of his children's lives, in a separate chapter for each child. Three died soon after their births, while others grew up to be bankers, writers, scientists, or members of parliament. Darwin and His Children: His Other Legacy covers each child in turn, providing a new and more personal perspective on the life and legacy of Charles Darwin.
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
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Published: 1905
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-02-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0674054148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. Incest and Influence shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans—in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. In a richly detailed narrative, Kuper deploys his expertise as an anthropologist to analyze kin marriages among the Darwins and Wedgwoods, in Quaker and Jewish banking families, and in the Clapham Sect and their descendants over four generations, ending with a revealing account of the Bloomsbury Group, the most eccentric product of English bourgeois endogamy. These marriage strategies were the staple of novels, and contemporaries were obsessed with them. But there were concerns. Ideas about incest were in flux as theological doctrines were challenged. For forty years Victorian parliaments debated whether a man could marry his deceased wife’s sister. Cousin marriage troubled scientists, including Charles Darwin and his cousin Francis Galton, provoking revolutionary ideas about breeding and heredity. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.
Author: Dusha Bateson
Publisher: G Editions LLC
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelineates a lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia. This cookbook includes unlikely dishes such as Turnips Cresselly and Penally Pudding. It also features the recipe for boiling rice in Charles Darwin's own hand.
Author: Mrs. Darwin Litchfield
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Loy
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813034782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Emma Darwin, wife and cousin of Charles Darwin, discussing her childhood in a large family, her role as the mother of ten children, and the Christian faith that caused her to worry about her husband's soul.