Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
CHAPTER XX - 1892–1895
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ALLEN PEDIGREE
- WEDGWOOD PEDIGREE
- DARWIN PEDIGREE
- CHAPTER I Characteristics of Emma Darwin
- CHAPTER II 1840–1842
- CHAPTER III 1842
- CHAPTER IV DOWN
- CHAPTER V 1843–1845
- CHAPTER VI 1846
- CHAPTER VII 1847–1848
- CHAPTER VIII 1849–1851
- CHAPTER IX 1851
- CHAPTER X 1851–1853
- CHAPTER XI 1853–1859
- CHAPTER XII 1860–1869
- CHAPTER XIII 1870–1871
- CHAPTER XIV 1872–1876
- CHAPTER XV 1876–1880
- CHAPTER XVI 1880–1882
- CHAPTER XVII 1882–1884
- CHAPTER XVIII 1885–1888
- CHAPTER XIX 1888–1891
- CHAPTER XX 1892–1895
- CHAPTER XXI 1896
- INDEX
- A POSTSCRIPT TO “EMMA DARWIN: A CENTURY OF FAMILY LETTERS”
- Plate section
Summary
My husband gave up his post in the Ecclesiastical Commission in the early part of 1892. In anticipation she writes:
The Grove,Jan. 13th, 1892.
It is nice to think how soon you will be free people and that I shall never be long without seeing you.
I do so enjoy the sunrise at my S.E. window and there was no frost last night. Nelly S. [little under-housemaid] goes about very small and smiling in her cap……I am in a rage with the senseless tragic mystery in The Little Minister. Why did they not marry again eighteen years ago, as soon as the first husband was dead.
The following was written whilst Bessy was away from home, so that my mother was without her usual companion.
The Grove,Jan. 15th, 1892.
I got through my day very comfortably by the help of two visits from Ida and one from Horace, besides an evening call, when I received them downstairs, and they were very comf., hard at work undoing an old jacket of Ida's.…
Nothing so sad has happened since the Prince Consort's death and perhaps this is more pathetic though not nearly such a misfortune. I think he would have made a safer king than the more lively Prince George.
Ida has had two old dolls of her own furbished up for Boofie and Nora and they are to come and shew them to me. They are beautifully dressed and keep their old names. […]
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- Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles DarwinA Century of Family Letters, pp. 414 - 448Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904