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Article: Opening up a box of family wonders; Annie's Box - Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution. By Randal Keynes (Fourth Estate, pounds 16.99). Reviewed by Monica Foot.(Books)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2001
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Byline: Monica Foot
The box of the title of this book is the writing case and place-to-keep-precious-things of Annie Darwin, who was the first daughter of evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin and his devoutly Christian wife Emma. She was their third child and the first daughter and she died, probably of consumption, at the age of ten.
This fascinating publication, drawing on masses of previously unseen material, is the first effort of a great-great-grandson of Darwin and he has clearly found it difficult to find a pivot for so much that is so extraordinary ...
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