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14 September 2013 . The passage in the Gospel of John referred to in Emma's letter says "Love one another" (13:34), then describes Jesus saying "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (14:6). dmy .

Web site: Darwin Correspondence Project - Letter 471 — Darwin, Emma to Darwin, C. R., (c. We were even once caught by the Guardia Civil when we set up camp by mistake on General Franco's country estate.

A Secret Alchemy, on the other hand, has many of its roots in my London childhood: films like Olivier’s Richard III, visits to the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey, memories of Josephine Tey's detective story The Daughter of Time, and always the layers of history that underlie everything, and show wherever the modern surface cracks.

I liked writing stories as a child, but history was my great love.

https://archive.today/20121223015341/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-637.html . She valued his openness, and his genuine uncertainty regarding the existence and nature of God, which gradually developed into agnosticism. She was keen on outdoor sports and loved archery.

At Maer on 31 August 1831 she was with her family when they helped Charles Darwin to overturn his father's objections to letting Charles go on an extended voyage on the Beagle.

Emma and Elizabeth took turns spending time away from their mother, and Emma spent several months each year away from home, staying with friends or family.

Marriage

Emma Wedgwood accepted Charles' marriage proposal on 11 November 1838 at the age of 30, and they were married on 29 January 1839 at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Maer.

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Web site: Darwin Correspondence Project - Belief: historical essay . My first work creative non-fiction, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin: a writer’s journey through my family will be published in February 2019. Growing up in the family estate, Maer Hall, she was raised in a Unitarian household.

23 April 2008 . It must have been some relief to her that Charles, to his posthumous surprise, was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Emma outlived Charles by 14 years, and her daughter, Henrietta Emma, published Emma's Life and Letters in 1915. Then I was diverted: my first camera had been a tenth birthday present, and now I finally acquired a darkroom.

But I became more and more sure that writing was what I should be doing, and I got a place on the MPhil in Writing at the University of Glamorgan, where my tutor was novelist and poet Christopher Meredith.

25 February 2009 . She had piano lessons from Moscheles, and allegedly "two or three" from Chopin.

In 1825 Josiah took his daughters on a grand tour of Europe, via Paris to near Geneva to visit their Aunt Jessie (Madame de Sismondi, née Allen, wife of the historian Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi) and then on. Emma was by then "one of the show performers on the piano", to the extent that on one occasion she was invited along to play for George IV's Mrs Fitzherbert.

2009-01-14 . 20 December 2013 . My reason tells me that honest & conscientious doubts cannot be a sin, but I feel it would be a painful void between us. It was only when I had two small children that I started writing a novel. 210 pp.

It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you. To this day I use what I learnt of characterisation, subtext and stagecraft in my own writing, but I also worked through my stage-struckness and out the other side.