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Children (2017)

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Emma Wedgwood and Charles Darwin married in January 1839, set up a home in London, and celebrated the birth of their first child, William in December the same year. Over the next seventeen years, Emma bore nine more children (Annie, Mary, Henrietta, George, Elizabeth, Francis, Leonard, Horace, and Charles Waring), three of whom did not survive to adulthood (Annie, Mary, and Charles Waring). In 1842, the Darwins moved their family to Down, a small village in rural Kent, but within easy reach of London by railway. Emma and Charles ran a relaxed household, but were fairly conventional in their approach to education and health. Like many Victorians, they recorded details of their daily life, so anecdotes and observations found in diaries and notebooks combine with their letters to provide a picture of middle-class Victorian parents living in their semi-rural home. For Darwin himself, matters of family life merged seamlessly into research questions about the expressions of emotions and the early stages of human development.

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Authors & Contributors
Evans, Samantha
Koganzon, Rita
White, Paul S.
Vallone, Lynne
Secord, James A.
Loy, Kent M.
Concepts
Collected correspondence
Women in science
Women
Family
Children
Observation
Time Periods
19th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Great Britain
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