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Article: Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation & Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution.
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- September 22, 2001
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James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
(Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2000), xx + 624. $35.00.
Randal Keynes. Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution
(Fourth Estate Pr., 2001), xvi + 331.
Published in the United States as Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution (Riverhead Books. 2002). $26.95.
Intellectual historians are aware that the idea of natural history as an evolutionary process, routinely associated with the work of Charles Darwin, had actually captured the British popular imagination fifteen ...