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  • 25 Jun 2012

    Henrietta Darwin’s Diary: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Part Two

    In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men's College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe, Kent, on 31 August. The intimate and deeply reflective journal entries from July, which hint at originally unrequited passion, cover the period of their courtship. Reading at times like teenage romantic fiction, with all the agonies of uncertainty and longing, it also dissects Henrietta’s reasons for choosing to be married in church–a decision she did not reach lightly–and her sadness at leaving her parents.

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  • 15 Jun 2012

    Henrietta Darwin’s Diary: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Part One

    A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life. The Darwin Correspondence Project, with the permission of Darwin’s family, is making public for the first time the short but intense—and intensely revealing—personal journal of Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta.

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