Emma Darwin: The Wife of an Inspirational Genius - Hardcover

Healey, Edna

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9780747275794: Emma Darwin: The Wife of an Inspirational Genius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747275793 ISBN 13: 9780747275794

Publisher: Headline, 2001

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Much has been written about Charles Darwin but this is the first biography of his strong, intelligent wife whom he referred to as 'twice refined gold'. Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of the famous Josiah, married Charles Darwin in 1839, three years after he returned from his extraordinary voyage on the Beagle. Their life together was intellectually exciting though overshadowed by personal tragedy. Edna Healey has discovered new, and hitherto unpublished material and has the full support of the Darwin family in writing this major biography.

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Review:

`This is a profoundly touching account of an exceptional marriage' (The Sunday Times)

`This is a memorable addition which draws vividly on Emma Darwin's own diaries and contemporary sources' 11/11 (Mail on Sunday)

A profoundly moving account of the paradoxes of love (Daily Telegraph)

`the splendid Edna Healey exhibited the sharpest wit and memory on the subject of the much-neglected Emma Darwin' (The Times)

...a conscientious work, the fruit of much labour... (Sunday Telegraph)

There was a diary piece about Edna Healey doing next month's Foyles Literary Lunch in the Express 3/9 --The Times

Healey encapsulates the social details of Emma's life wonderfully (New Scientist) --New Scientist

...crisply written, meticulously researched and richly evocative... (Big Issue in the North) --Big Issue in the North

Book Description:

A major biography of Emma Darwin of whom the author writes: 'Darwin's debt to Emma can never be fully estimated. Without her he might have been a clever man who yet achieved nothing'

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