Emma Darwin
Subtitle: a Victorian life
By: James D. Loy and Kent M. Loy.
Contributors: Loy, Kent M.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780813034782
Subjects: Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, -- 1808-1896; Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, -- 1808-1896 -- Family; Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, -- 1808-1896 -- Marriage; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882; Women -- Great Britain -- Biography; Wives -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography; Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genealogies; title: The family circle; title: The two Dovelies; title: A woman of the world; title: A traveling cousin, a Doveley's death, and the abolition of slavery; title: The return of the Beagle and "The day of days!"; title: Bride, mother, nurse; title: Narrow lanes and high hedges; title: The old order changeth; title: A dear and good child; title: The Great Exhibition, war in the Balkans, and the last of the Barnacles; title: For better or worse, in sickness and in health; title: Midwiving the Origin; title: A banker in the family; title: Lives lived, lives lost, and closure at Malvern; title: A book about man, and Henrietta takes a husband; title: Two weddings, four funerals, and the fiendish Mr. Ffinden; title: An irreparable loss; title: "Our secure happiness...shattered"; title: Life at a lower pitch; title: The life and letters; title: Banting, books, and the Queen's Jubilee; title: The Leos abroad, and the last Maerite left standing; title: The last wind of the watch.