page_title: Elizabeth, Lady Hope
section_title: Lady Hope's story of her meeting with Charles Darwin
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth, Lady Hope / Lady Hope's story of her meeting with Charles Darwin
caption_attribution_description: English: Down House. Photo by Richard Carter, see http://www.gruts.com/darwin/
context_page_description: Elizabeth Reid Cotton, who became Lady Hope when she married Sir James Hope in 1877, was a British evangelist active in the Temperance movement.
  In 1915, she claimed to have visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882, during which interview Hope said Darwin spoke of second thoughts about publicising his theory of natural selection. That Hope visited Darwin is possibly true, though denied by Darwin's family, but her interpretation of what Darwin said at the putative interview is much less likely.
context_section_description: Lady Hope's story first appeared in an American Baptist newspaper, the Watchman-Examiner, on 15 August 1915, the story preceded by a four-page report on the summer Bible conference held in Northfield, which that year ran from 30 July to 15 August 1915.
caption: Down House, Darwin's home, where Hope claimed she met Darwin.
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