In each of which she kept a little husband
Rosemary Ashton, 6 July 1989
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. IV: 1847-1850
edited by Frederic Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
Cambridge, 744 pp., £32.50, February 1989,0 521 25590 2 Show More
edited by Frederic Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
Cambridge, 744 pp., £32.50, February 1989,
Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
by George Levine.
Harvard, 336 pp., £21.95, November 1988,0 674 19285 0 Show More
by George Levine.
Harvard, 336 pp., £21.95, November 1988,
“... How clever of Nature to ‘choose’ Darwin to teach the world that she has, against the prevailing view of natural theology, no purpose, no teleology, no choice. No one could be more gentlemanly, cautious, desirous of conforming, unwilling to shock or upset – yet no one could be more deliberate, more stubborn in holding to an opinion once embraced – than Darwin ... ”
