Book ID: CBB740322845

Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (2017)

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Evans, Samantha (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 298 pp.
Language: English

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that throw light on the lives of the women of his circle and their relationships, social and professional, with Darwin. The letters included are by turns entertaining, intriguing, and challenging, and are organised into thematic chapters, including botany and zoology as well as marriage and servants, that set them in an accessible narrative context. Darwin's famous remarks on women's intelligence in Descent of Man provide a recurring motif, and are discussed in the foreword by Gillian Beer, and in the introduction. The immediacy and variety of these texts make this an entertaining read which will suggest avenues for further research to students.

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Review Rosalind White (2018) Review of "Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters". Archives of Natural History (pp. 392-392). unapi

Review Emilie J. Raymer (2018) Review of "Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 66-67). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Travellers. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 183-193). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Insects and Angels. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 105-121). unapi

Chapter Charissa Varma (2017) Children. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 35-49). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Writers and Critics. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 148-165). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Friends. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 1-18). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Servants and Governesses. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 194-209). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Observing Plants. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 67-89). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Marriage. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 19-34). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Observing Humans. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 122-135). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Editors. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 136-147). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Ascent of Woman. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 210-228). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Companion Animals. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 90-104). unapi

Chapter Samantha Evans (2017) Scientific Wives and Allies. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 50-66). unapi

Chapter Paul White (2017) Religion. In: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters (pp. 166-182). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Evans, Samantha
White, Paul S.
Secord, James A.
Darwin, Charles Robert
Burkhardt, Frederick
Smith, Elise Lawton
Concepts
Collected correspondence
Women in science
Women
Science and gender
Correspondence and corresponding
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Gambia
Europe
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