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Christopher Dresser, Principles of Decorative Design

Christopher Dresser publishes Principles of Decorative Design.

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Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

Wendy S. Williams, "‘Free-and-Easy,’ ‘Japaneasy’: British Perceptions and the 1885 Japanese Village"

Siobhan Carroll, "On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792"

Shannon Draucker, “Hearing, Sensing, Feeling Sound: On Music and Physiology in Victorian England, 1857-1894”

David Rettenmaier
Jun 1792

Botanic Garden

Frontispiece to Darwin's Botanic GardenIn June 1792, Erasmus Darwin published the complete version of The Botanic Garden, a popular scientific nature poem. The poem anticipates ecocritical discussions of human environmental agency in its proposal that Europeans combat climate change through geoengineering. Image: Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden, designed by Henry Fuseli. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

Articles

Siobhan Carroll, “On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792″

David Rettenmaier
Jan 1830

Publication of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology

January 1830 saw the publication of the first volume (of three) of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology.

Lyell’s work, though contested, establishes the preeminence of Uniformitarian principles in the interpretation of Geological phenomena, and allows vast temporal scope for Charles Darwin’s subsequent model of evolutionary development.

image courtesy of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Lyell00.jpg

Michaela Jensen
1 Jan 1830

Principles of Geology

Portrait of Charles LyellJanuary 1830 saw the publication of the first volume (of three) of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (January 1830). Image: G. J. Stodart (engraver), Portrait of Charles Lyell (unknown date).

Lyell’s work, though contested, establishes the preeminence of Uniformitarian principles in the interpretation of Geological phenomena, and allows vast temporal scope for Charles Darwin’s subsequent model of evolutionary development.

Articles

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

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Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

David Rettenmaier
Oct 1831 to Oct 1836

Darwin's voyage on the Beagle

Photograph of Charles DarwinFrom October 1831 to October 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the world as ship’s naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle; he later published his first book based on the journal of his experiences and observations during the voyage. Image: Henry Maull and John Fox, Photograph of Charles Darwin (c. 1854). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

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Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
Oct 1844

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

photo of ChambersWritten by Edinburgh publisher Robert Chambers but published anonymously in October 1844, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation provided a grand cosmic narrative of evolutionary change and became an immediate sensation. Its condemnation by leaders of both science and the church contributed to Charles Darwin’s delay in publishing his own evolutionary theory but also helped spread acceptance of what was then called “the transmutation of species” and “the development hypothesis.” Image: Robert Chambers, c. 1863. Reproduced from John van Wyhe, The History of Phrenology on the Web. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Jonathan Smith, “The Huxley-Wilberforce ‘Debate’ on Evolution, 30 June 1860″

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Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
Jan 1857 to Dec 1858

Christopher Dresser, “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture”

Figure 1. Christopher Dresser, nature’s diaper patterns, from “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture” (1857-1858). Public domain.Christopher Dresser publishes “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture” in The Art Journal as an eleven-part essay.

Image: Christopher Dresser, nature’s diaper patterns, from “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture” (1857-1858). Public domain.

Articles

Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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Wendy S. Williams, "‘Free-and-Easy,’ ‘Japaneasy’: British Perceptions and the 1885 Japanese Village"

Siobhan Carroll, "On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792"

Shannon Draucker, “Hearing, Sensing, Feeling Sound: On Music and Physiology in Victorian England, 1857-1894”

David Rettenmaier
24 Nov 1859

On the Origin of Species

"Charles Darwin, aged 51." According to the son of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, this portrait is by Messrs. Maull and Fox. Photo is in the public domain.

On 24 November 1859, Charles Darwin publishes his On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. This book introduced the theory of evolution--species evolve over time through the process of natural selection. These theories were highly controversial because they conflicted with many of the prevelant theologial beliefs of the time. 

Griffin Kerr
24 Nov 1859 to 24 Nov 1859

On the Origin of Species

Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Image. "Charles Darwin, on the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859.

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Nathan K. Hensley and John Patrick James, “Sooth Moth: Biston Betularia and the Victorian End of Nature.

David Rettenmaier
24 Nov 1859

On the Origin of Species

Photograph of Charles DarwinOn 24 November 1859, Charles Darwin publishes his On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Image: Henry Maull and John Fox, Photograph of Charles Darwin (c. 1854). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

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Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
1860

Essays and Reviews

The publication in March 1860 of the seven articles by liberal Anglicans comprising Essays and Reviews set off a firestorm of controversy within the Church of England and across British society. The “seven against Christ,” as they were called by their critics, embraced a Christianity in step with the new historical scholarship of the Bible and with modern science.

Articles

Jonathan Smith, “The Huxley-Wilberforce ‘Debate’ on Evolution, 30 June 1860″

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Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
30 Jun 1860

Huxley-Wilberforce “Debate” on Evolution

photo of HuxleyAt the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford on 30 June 1860, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was informally debated by a number of speakers, most memorably in an exchange between Darwin’s friend and supporter T. H. Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford. Image: Thomas Henry Huxley as photographed by Ernest Edwards for Photographs of Eminent Medical Men, ed. William Tindal Robertson, vol. 2 (London: Churchill, 1868), between 4 and 5. Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Jonathan Smith, “The Huxley-Wilberforce ‘Debate’ on Evolution, 30 June 1860″

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Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
1862

Christopher Dresser, The Art of Decorative Design

Figure 6. Ornamental motifs that evoke the “mental conception” of a leaf-bud. Plate II from Dresser, _The Art of Decorative Design_ (1862). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.Expanding on his studies of botany and ornament, the designer Christopher Dresser publishes The Art of Decorative Design, in which he argues that ornamentists should look to the laws that orchestrate plant growth and the laws that condition how the human mind reacts to form. Dresser’s “scientific” approach to design engages with the then-new empirical inquiries into aesthetic perception, the physiological or psychological aesthetics. Exact month of publication unknown.

Image: Plate II from Dresser, The Art of Decorative Design (1862). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

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Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

Wendy S. Williams, "‘Free-and-Easy,’ ‘Japaneasy’: British Perceptions and the 1885 Japanese Village"

Siobhan Carroll, "On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792"

Shannon Draucker, “Hearing, Sensing, Feeling Sound: On Music and Physiology in Victorian England, 1857-1894”

David Rettenmaier
1869

The Edinburgh Seven enrolled at the University of Edinburgh

Sophia Jex-Blake, leader of the Edinburgh Seven

The Edinburgh Seven were the first seven girls that were allowed to enroll at a British university. While the university did not let them graduate in the end, their case did generate a lot of national attention, including that of Charles Darwin.

Cooper Gollier
24 Feb 1871

Descent of Man

Cameron photo of DarwinOn 24 February 1871, Charles Darwin published his argument for the gradualist evolution of the human species from animal species in two volumes: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Image: Charles Darwin, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron (1868). Reprinted in Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters, edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1892. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

Articles

Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

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Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

David Rettenmaier
11 Apr 1876

"Ethics of Belief"

Clifford imageOn 11 April 1876, W. K. Clifford delivered his paper “The Ethics of Belief” to the monthly meeting of the Metaphysical Society in London. Image: Picture of William Kingdon Clifford, 1901. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

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Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

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Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Bernard Lightman, “On Tyndall’s Belfast Address, 1874″

Martin Meisel, “On the Age of the Universe”

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

David Rettenmaier
11 Aug 1876 to 11 Aug 1876

The Medical Act of 1876

The Medical Act of 1876

            The 1870s was one of the most important decades for British women in the field of medicine. Perhaps the most prominent act was the Medical Act of 1876. The act allowed all British medical authorities to license all qualified applicants, regardless of gender. Prior to the Medical Act of 1876, women practiced as unlicensed physicians, a phenomenon that was not uncommon for both men and women at the time (Kirwan). The Medical Act of 1858, however, set laws to regulate unlicensed physicians in the United Kingdom. Although this act might sound justified, it was unfair to women who wanted to practice, but could not, due to medical schools refusing to accept women to their establishments.

The act did not stop one particularly brilliant woman, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who had found a loophole in the Medical Acts. She realized that British laws did not prevent foreign practicing doctors from practicing in the United Kingdom. Dr. Blackwell had already graduated from New York’s Geneva Medical college in 1849, becoming the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in the United States. She used her medical degree to register in the General Medical Council of Britain (Jefferson et al.). She was allowed to practice in 1865, when she was granted entry to the Society of Apothecaries (Wagner). The Society of Apothecaries prevented future female entrants later that year.

A group of women who got expelled from Edinburgh University decided to work their way around the established medical schools that did not accept women into their programs by founding the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. Among those women was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. The London School of Medicine for Women began in a small house but moved to purpose-built premises at the end of the 19th century. The students were taught by male doctors who supported their cause. The school was noted for its international links to other medical establishments.

Despite the foundation of the London School of Medicine for Women, many ambitious women in Britain were not pleased with the prominent medical schools that still held the belief that women were not fit to practice medicine. The Edinburgh Seven, who were the same seven women that established the London School of Medicine for Women, led the campaign to fight the persistent inequality in medical schools. Those women were expelled from their medical program due to increasing hostility from male professors despite their gaining honors in multiple subjects. Their campaign gained them many renowned supporters, such as Charles Darwin. Despite the campaign’s publicity, the Court of Session supported the University’s right to reject giving degrees to women and ruled that the seven women should not have been allowed to join the medical program in the first place. The failed campaign, however, gained enough support to eventually result in the Medical Act of 1876.

            The Medical Act of 1876 was proposed by Parliament member Russell Gurney. Theoretically, the act should have allowed women access to medical schools. The act, however, did not enforce the acceptance of women in medical schools. It only allowed medical schools to choose whether or not they wanted to accept women into their medical programs. Most medical schools at the time continued to reject all female applicants to their schools. The Royal College of Physicians did not admit women into their programs until 1907 (British Medical Journal). Furthermore, the act did not enforce any laws for equal treatment of women if they were to be accepted into medical programs. The struggle for women who sought a medical career continued well into the 20th century.

 

Works Cited

Jefferson, Laura, et al. “Women in Medicine: Historical Perspectives and Recent Trends.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 8 Mar. 2015, academic.oup.com/bmb/article/114/1/5/246075.

Wagner, John A. “Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life.” Google Books, ABC-CLIO, 25 Feb. 2014, books.google.com/books?id=VqiSAwAAQBAJ.

“Former London School of Medicine for Women.” Historic England, historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/womens-history/women-and-healthcare/former-london-school-of-medicine-for-women/.

“British Medical Journal.” Google Play, Google, 1908, play.google.com/books/reader?id=1Rw-AQAAMAAJ.

 

 

 

Laith Shaban
10 Oct 1881

Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms

Punch magazine image caricaturing Darwin's evolutionary theoriesOn 10 October 1881, Charles Darwin published his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, based on extensive study of the behavior of worms and the effects that they have on the earth’s surface. Worms begins with the individual physiology and behavior of worms before moving to the cumulative effects of their work on the exterior world. Two long chapters on their senses and habits are followed by four chapters cataloguing the results of their labor, including bringing up earth, burying buildings, enriching the soil, and denuding the land. Image: “Man is But a Worm,” Punch, 6 December 1881. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

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Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

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Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

David Rettenmaier
19 Apr 1882

Death of Charles Darwin

Photograph of Charles DarwinDeath of Charles Darwin on 19 April 1882. Darwin’s friends and supporters arrange for his burial in Westminster Abbey as a mark of the importance and respectability of his life and ideas. Image: Henry Maull and John Fox, Photograph of Charles Darwin (c. 1854). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Nancy Armstrong, “On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871″

Ian Duncan, “On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle”

Anna Henchman, “Charles Darwin’s Final Book on Earthworms, 1881”

Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Cannon Schmitt, “On the Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859″

Jonathan Smith, “The Huxley-Wilberforce ‘Debate’ on Evolution, 30 June 1860″

Daniel Bivona, “On W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ 11 April 1876″

David Rettenmaier
Jul 1890

(1890) "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

In the article "Aestheticism, Homoeroticism, and Christian Guilt in the Picture of Dorian Gray," Lewis Carroll constructs an argument that relates Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to the contemporary converstaions of Darwinism, negative reception towards homoeroticism, and the realization of Christian guilt. The argument of the article itself shows how literary criticism evolved from ignoring  and even despising novels to later creating historical arguments using novels as their evidence. Carroll links the novel's subject matter to the historical intellectual movements of the late 19th century. In the article, Carroll claims that The Picture of Dorian Gray pushes back against Darwinian criticism in two ways. First, the homoerotic relationships presented in the novel contradict Darwin's idea of mating for reproduction. Secondly, the primary conflict in the novel opposes the "quasi-Darwinian conceptual strucutre implicit in most realist and naturalist fiction" (Carroll 287). Earlier in the history of the novel, novels would likely not receive such regard to be compared to historical movements.

Carroll, Joseph. "AESTHETICISM, HOMOEROTICISM, AND CHRISTIAN GUILT IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY." Philosophy and Literature, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 286-304. ProQuest, http://pointloma.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pointlo....

Shane Hoyle