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  Emma Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood, 2 May 1808–7 October 1896) was the wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and mother to their ten children.
Emma Wedgwood was born in 1808 at the family estate of Maer Hall, Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of six children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Bessy (Elizabeth).
Emma Darwin is especially remembered for her patience and fortitude in dealing with her husband's long-term illness which became apparent shortly after their marriage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emma_Darwin   (873 words)

  
 Darwin | American Museum of Natural History
Darwin may not have had a candidate in mind when he wrote this list, but Emma was a logical choice.
Darwin had advised Charles to keep his spiritual doubts to himself—"some women suffered miserably" if they thought their husbands were not going to heaven, he told his son.
Darwin sat for this portrait in 1840, the year after he and Emma were married.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/darwin/idea/wife.php   (907 words)

  
 Darwin -- Short Bio
Darwin, of shy and retiring tempement, and plagued by poor health, did not seek out conflict or controversy, and demurred when occasions arose to discuss or debate his views in public.
Darwin was deeply affected by the death of his older brother Erasmus ("Ras") in August 1881, and it is conjectured that his grief may have exacerbated the seriousness of his own poor health.
Emma Darwin, his loyal and devoted wife, moved to Cambridge but returned to Down House during the summers for 14 more years until her death in 1896.
www.public.coe.edu /departments/Biology/darwin_bio.html   (2282 words)

  
 AboutDarwin.com - Darwin's Timeline
Darwin, Emma, and the children, move to the village of Downe from London.
Darwin's father, Dr. Robert Darwin, was now quite ill. Darwin went to Shrewsbury to see his father, but while there his illness flared up again and he spent most of his time resting on the sofa in the living room.
Darwin was put on a daily routine that went as follows: get up early in the morning for a walk, have breakfast, get scrubbed with a cold wet towel for a short time, walk for twenty minutes and wear a cold wet towel compress all day long.
www.aboutdarwin.com /timeline/time_06.html   (3747 words)

  
 authortrek.com - Emma Darwin page
Emma Darwin is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin (and therefore Josiah Wedgwood’s great-great-great-granddaughter – ed).
Emma Darwin was born and brought up in London, where she was educated at St. Paul’s Girls’ School.
Emma Darwin also has a great interest in photography, and this interest distracted her a little from writing at this time, as she acquired her first dark room (it’s probably not a coincidence that her great-great-great grandfather, Tom Wedgwood, was a pioneer of photography).
www.authortrek.com /emma_darwin_page.html   (534 words)

  
 Darwin on Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Darwin wished to withhold a portion of his writing not because they did not represent the honest views of her husband, but because they were painful to her and might also have been to some of his friends.
Emma Darwin wrote and asked Frank to omit this sentence when he was editing the Autobiography in 1885.
Darwin, with reference to some of his own remarkable works on the 'Fertilization of Orchids,' and upon 'The Earthworms,' and various other observations he made of the wonderful contrivances for certain purposes in nature--I said it was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of mind.
hometown.aol.com /darwinpage/religion.htm   (5260 words)

  
 URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996
Charles Darwin was an extremely important individual for a variety of reasons: the data he collected, the experiments he conducted, and the theories he proposed influenced a variety of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology as well as ecology, geology, and the general social sciences.
Emma Darwin survived Charles Darwin until her death at the age of eighty-eight in 1896 (May 2, 1808-October 2, 1896) and she did not attend the formal service in London at Westminster Abbey.
Darwin was essentially confined to his home at Down as a result of his illness from his South American research and he really did not take part in the great public and scientific debates that came about with the publication of Origin.
www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html   (17104 words)

  
 Maer, Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was at Maer that Darwin began to investigate the role of earthworms in formation of “vegetable mould,” and he attributed the insight of the role of earthworms to his uncle Josiah Wedgwood II.
Darwin dug in fields that had been left undisturbed for some years, and he found that cinders, marl and lime, previously spread on the surface, were now buried some inches beneath the turf.
Darwin (1881) returned to the subject in his final publication, a book entitled The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /biography/maer   (1519 words)

  
 Darwin Sac Feb2002
Darwin was an extremely important individual for a variety of reasons: his travels and data and experiments all contributed to the more than twenty books he published.
Darwin, however, conducted a great deal of research and in April 1832 Robert McCormick (1800-1890), who was the official naturalist on HMS Beagle, was "invalided out" back to England and Darwin was the naturalist for the rest of the voyage.
Henrietta Emma was born in 1843 and died in 1927.
www.csuchico.edu /~curban/DarwinSacFeb2002.html   (10304 words)

  
 The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana: Geology
Darwin's interest in geological evidence for changes in land elevation had been piqued at the Beagle's very first landfall in 1832, in Teneriffe.
Darwin's revision for this second edition was used in all subsequent Victorian editions.
Darwin's selection to write the geological chapter in this official Admiralty manual for scientific exploration attests to his established reputation with influential contemporaries like Herschel.
www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/nathist/darwin/darwin5.html   (777 words)

  
 Darwin:
DARWIN: Darwin pours tea with the addition of a nib of alcohol for the other two gentlemen as well as one for himself, carrying them to the two men, all of this being done during the first portion of his next speech.
Emma exits and Darwin continues to stare at the wall for a few minutes until Huxley is shown in and Emma closes the door behind her as she exits.
Darwin was dead by the time of Hitler and the concentration camp scientific experiments, but Darwin was still alive when Spencer took hold of Darwin's ideas and applied them to the poor, during the American Industrialization.
ww2.lafayette.edu /~vast/Rewinkel.html   (3696 words)

  
 AboutDarwin.com - Darwin's Children
The first of Darwin's children was born on December 27, 1839.
It was the death of Annie that radically altered Darwin’s belief in Christianity.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879, and taught at Cambridge University from 1884, as a Professor of Botany, until 1904.
www.aboutdarwin.com /darwin/Children.html   (468 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Charles Darwin: Terms, Events, and Important People
Charles Darwin joined the Beagle as a naturalist and it was on this trip that he made many of the observations that contributed to his invention of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Although he was a supporter of the divine creation of species and the geological theory of catastrophism, he helped prepare the way for Darwinism through his studies of anatomical classification and paleontology.
Born when Emma was forty-eight years old, he proved to mentally retarded.
www.sparknotes.com /biography/darwin/terms.html   (764 words)

  
 Behind Every Great Man - 17 November 2001 - New Scientist
Charles Darwin worked and worried incessantly, so much so that he made himself ill. Edna Healey tells us that Emma, meanwhile, was intelligent, liked literature and "not only did she dance gracefully, she spoke French, German and Italian well, and played the piano brilliantly..."
Nevertheless, Emma, née Wedgwood, one of eight children of the well-to-do pottery family, made a very successful and happy career out of the marriage and bore him 10 children between 1839 and 1856.
She lays bare some of the marriage's problems: for instance, Darwin's concern over Emma's religiosity may have contributed to his illness and delay over publishing his theory of evolution.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=mg17223175.800   (248 words)

  
 Who was Darwin?
In a scene eerily reminiscent of Darwin's grandmother's passing, his mother's last fortnight on earth was characterized by vomiting and severe gastro-intestinal pain while being tended to by her husband, Dr. Robert, as he administered vast quantities of the opium derivative laudanum to her.
Darwin related a strange story that was widely circulated around Shropshire of an incident that, though later denied by his father, and supposedly denied by the managing partner of the firm involved, at least according to Dr. Robert, was apparently corroborated by a great many eye witnesses:
Darwin, when on his death bed, abjectly whined for a minister and renouncing evolution, sought safety in the blood of the Saviour' is totally false and without any kind of foundation." Ibid, pp.117, The Darwin Legend, taken from The Huxley Papers, 8;135-137, 138-139.
www.thedarwinpapers.com /oldsite/number1/Darwinpapers1Htm.htm   (6921 words)

  
 The Darwin Correspondence Online Database
These letters cover the years between Darwin's return from the Beagle voyage and the publication of Origin of species and were published in volumes 2 to 7 of The correspondence of Charles Darwin; the full texts of letters from those years discovered since the publication of the volumes will be added shortly.
Darwin Project staff who have contributed to the development of the database are Samantha Evans, Nick Gill, Alison Pearn, and Ellis Weinberger.
The Calendar to the Darwin correspondence is a catalogue, with summaries, of all the known letters to and from Charles Darwin, the full texts of which are being published in the volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk   (4155 words)

  
 Darwin Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There was much verbal sparring and acrimonious argument and Darwin, in particular, had little use for Carlyle: 'I never met a man with a mind so ill adapted for scientific research,' he wrote in his autobiography.
Darwin College, across the river on Silver Street was built around the former home of George Darwin (1845-1912), who was Plumian professor of astronomy for nearly thirty years...
The George Darwin home has a certain notoriety because it is the centre of action of Period Piece, an amusing and irreverent book by Gwen Raverat, George's daughter, which is all about growing up in Cambridge in the 1880's.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /england.html   (4212 words)

  
 Articulate: Q&A: Emma Darwin. September 27, 2006. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
If that's the case then first-time novelist Emma Darwin shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Stephen's narrative runs parallel with that of a 1970s teenager, Anna, who becomes wrapped up in two lives lived before her own - Stephen's and Theo's, a war photographer she befriends while staying with her uncle.
Darwin, the great-great grand-daughter of Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood, was recently a guest of the Brisbane Writers Festival and she had some time to spare for a Q&A with Articulate.
www.abc.net.au /news/arts/articulate/200609/s1750430.htm   (977 words)

  
 Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love, historical fiction
In Writing you can read about how it came to be written, and there’s also an extract, plus something about Emma’s other fiction.
Contact has details of how to get in touch with her agent and her publishers, and lists other links that should be useful or simply interesting.
Do click News to find out more about these launches and what else is going on in Emma's writing life.
www.emmadarwin.com   (157 words)

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