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Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
Emma L. Darwin (born 8 April 1964 [1]) is an English historical fiction author, writer of the novels The Mathematics of Love (2006) and A Secret Alchemy (2008) and various short stories. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Emma Darwin .
Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters 1792-1896 is a book in two volumes, edited by Henrietta Litchfield about her mother, Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) and letters from their family. It was originally privately published in 1904 as Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles Darwin: A Century of Family Letters , but was publicly published under the shorter ...
Charles Darwin Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 [1] – 17 December 1927 [2]) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Henrietta was born at Down House , Downe , Kent, in 1843.
Emma Darwin - sister of Caroline's husband married to her brother Charles - mentioned the flowers of this specimen in the 1846 letter to Hooker: "We have just received a blossom of Rhod Falconeri which has flowered in the open air at my brothers on Leith Hill Surrey". [1] [6] Darwins were frequent visitors to Leith Hill.
In April 2008 Darwin's private papers were launched. The event marked the largest release of new materials by and about Darwin ever published. The collection covers c. 20,000 items across c. 90,000 electronic images. One notable item is the Diary of Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Darwin's wife. [7] [8] The site is accessible open access free of ...
"Darwin's Darkest Hour" is a 2009 American drama television episode from Nova produced in collaboration with National Geographic. It details the life of Charles Darwin until the publication of On the Origin of Species, partially through flashbacks. The episode stars Henry Ian Cusick as Charles Darwin and Frances O'Connor as his wife Emma.