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To marry or not to marry? This biography starts with Charles Darwin making a list of domestic pros and cons. Despite his reservations, he decided that marriage and family life were worth the risk, and so he married Emma Wedgwood, not knowing that her religious nature would call his science into question. Why It Is for Us: The Darwins' fascinating marriage of faith and reason is a very grown-up love story. Emma prays for her husband, deeply in love and yet convinced that he is putting his eternal soul at risk. For his part, Darwin finds that the bonds of matrimony he once feared would confine him instead inform his work in ways he could not have expected. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 8-Up Beginning with Darwin's notorious chart listing reasons to wed and not to wed, Heiligman has created a unique, flowing, and meticulously researched picture of the controversial scientist and the effect of his marriage on his life and work. Using the couple's letters, diaries, and notebooks as well as documents and memoirs of their relatives, friends, and critics, the autho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In 1838 Charles Darwin, then almost thirty, drew a line down the middle of a paper and listed the reasons for marrying on one side and the reasons for not marrying on the other. After much consideration, he opted for the former, and from his prospects he wisely chose his cousin, Emma, who was open-minded but devoutly religious. She supported her husband, even editing his work, bu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With empathy and humor, Heiligman's narrative examines Darwin's legacy through the unique lens of his domestic life. Charles's...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A touching story filled with trials and triumphs, Charles and Emma is not only the biography of Charles Darwin and his family, but also a peek into everyday life in the Victorian era. Deborah Heiligman fills her account of Charles and Emma Darwin’s marriage with details culled from primary source documents such as diaries, correspondence, and Charles’s scientific notebooks, and she incorporates quotations into the narrative with ease. “In his letters to Emma [Charles] was unabashedly romantic . . . Emma, uncharacteristically ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More