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Charles Darwin's The life of Erasmus Darwin by Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; King-Hele, Desmond, 1927- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Charles Darwin's book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts directed at its most provocative parts. The cutter, with Charles's permission, was his daughter Henrietta - an example of the strong hidden hand of meek-seeming Victorian women. Originally published in 2003, this first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; King-Hele, Desmond, 1927-
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511148446
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Medical, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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