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 Emma Darwin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Darwin ((additional info and facts about née) née Wedgwood, 2 May 1808–7 October 1896) was the wife of the English naturalist (English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)) Charles Darwin.
Emma Wedgwood, born in 1808, was the daughter of (additional info and facts about Josiah Wedgwood II) Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth, and grew up in a wealthy family.
Charles Darwin was her first cousin; their shared grandparent was (English potter (1730-1795)) Josiah Wedgwood; and as the (additional info and facts about Wedgwood and Darwin families) Wedgwood and Darwin families were closely allied, she had been acquainted with him since childhood.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emma_darwin.htm   (590 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Emma Darwin Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Darwin was the wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood 2nd May 1808-7th October 1896) was the wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
Emma often played the piano for Charles, and in Darwin's 1871 The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin spent several pages on the evolution of musical ability by means of sexual selection.
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 URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Earlier in 1838, Emma's older brother Jos had married one of Charles Darwin's older sisters, and it was their child (Sophie Wedgwood) that had died three days after Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood were wed.
Emma Wedgwood and Charles Darwin were married on January 29, 1839 and resided in London from that year until 1842.
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.
www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html   (17104 words)

  
 Who was Darwin?
Though Wedgwood's employees were in principle free to come and go, they were in practice tied to his cottages, to his insurance societies, and to his wages.
She was often to suffer the blunt of her husband's frequent outbursts of rage, and she died under slightly mysterious circumstances when Charles was eight years old; circumstances strikingly similar to those under which Charles Darwin's grandmother had died years before.
His quotation is taken from the unpublished Wedgwood archives in the library of the University of Keen.
www.thedarwinpapers.com /oldsite/number1/Darwinpapers1Htm.htm   (6915 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Darwin Charles
Darwin was the son of Robert Waring Darwin, who had one of the largest medical practices outside of London, and the grandson of the physician Erasmus Darwin, the author of Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life, and of the artisan-entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.
He was keenly interested in specimen collecting and chemical investigations, but at the Shrewsbury school, where he was an uninspired student, the headmaster, Dr. Samuel Butler, stressed the classics and publicly rebuked Darwin for wasting his time with chemical experiments.
Charles Darwin in 1854, 5 years before publishing The Origin Charles Robert Darwin F.R.S. February 12 April 19) was a revolutionary English naturalist who laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by proposing natural selection as a mechanism.
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 Charles Darwin
Charles was the grandson of two very prominent men of the time, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) and Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
Erasmus, who died several years before Charles was even born, was a dedicated evolutionist.
In 1839, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and, five days later, married to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, who bore him 10 children.
www.allaboutscience.org /Charles-Darwin.htm   (669 words)

  
 CHARLES DARWIN. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay DB
Charles Darwin was born on February 18, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.
He is the son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood Darwin.
She was a devoted wife and brought money and housewifery skills that provided him an environment to work in peacefully for forty years.
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 Chapter 29 Appendix
"In 1839, Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, whose traditional religious beliefs were opposed to his unorthodox inquiries into the origin of species.
Soon after their marriage, she wrote him a letter, begging him to reconsider challenging the Bible's account of creation, lest they be separated for eternity in the hereafter.
From the first, his wife Emma worried whether his scientific investigations were going to cost him his soul.
www.evolution-facts.org /Appendix/a29.htm   (5250 words)

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