Darwin's ‘Angels’: the Women Correspondents of Charles Darwin

Harvey, Joy

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“…[were] too fundamental ever to be reconciled'. Yet they resumed cordial relations during 1872 when discussing the minds of dogs, only to fall out again thereafter, irreparably this time, over vivisection; see Harvey (2009). Their relations deteriorated so much that by the 1890s Cobbe communicated with the Darwins only through (Julia) Wedgwood; see Emma Darwin to Laura Forster, May 1894, in Litchfield (1915.…”

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Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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2022

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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. This book puts them back on the map. The book introduces twelve women philosophers: Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby, Arabella Buckley, Annie Besant, Vernon Lee, and Constance Naden. The book examines their views on naturalism, philosophy of mind, the meaning of evolution, morality and religion, and progress in history. The book shows how these women interacted and developed their philosophical views in conversation with one another, not only with their male contemporaries. The rich print and periodical culture enabled these women to publish philosophy in forms accessible to a general readership, despite the restrictions women faced, such as having limited or no access to university education. The book explains how these women became excluded from the history of philosophy because, at the end of the nineteenth century, there was a change towards specialized forms of philosophical writing which depended on academic credentials that were still largely unavailable to women.

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Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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2022

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“…Later, when their daughter Henrietta was older, she acted as an editor for Darwin by going over his proof sheets for style. This female assistance is often ignored by historians (Harvey 2009). The proof sheets amended by Henrietta are now preserved in the Cam bridge archive and we can see her comments in the margins: "this is a horrid sentence."…”

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Darwin the Scientist

Browne

2009

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

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“…and Waizbort (2010), Feller (2009), andHarvey (2009). See also Boddice (2016) on how professional men of science re-invented themselves to circumvent accusations of cruelty.…”

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Frances Power Cobbe and the Philosophy of Antivivisection

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2023

Journal of Animal Ethics

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Frances Power Cobbe led the Victorian movement against vivisection. Cobbe is often remembered for her animal welfare campaigning, but it is rarely recognized that she approached animal welfare as a moral philosopher. In this article, I examine the philosophical basis of Cobbe's antivivisectionism. I concentrate on her 1875 article “The Moral Aspects of Vivisection,” in which Cobbe first locates vivisection within the historical movement of Western civilization and the tendency for science to supersede religion and then endeavors to refute the defenses of vivisection one by one. I emphasize the philosophical considerations that led Cobbe to oppose animal experimentation on a reasoned basis.

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Darwin's ‘Angels’: the Women Correspondents of Charles Darwin

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Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Darwin the Scientist

Frances Power Cobbe and the Philosophy of Antivivisection

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