This Is Not a Book About Charles Darwin

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This Is Not a Book About Charles Darwin

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Author: Emma Darwin

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781910688571

Date: 12th February, 2022

Publisher: HOLLAND HOUSE BOOKS

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  2. Creative Writing
  3. Literary Theory
  4. Memoirs

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Everybody knows about Charles Darwin, and many know about others in his family, from Erasmus Darwin and Tom Wedgwood, the first photographer, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet and radical John Cornford, the first Briton to be killed in the Spanish Civil War. But when Charles and Emma Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, another Emma Darwin, tried to root her new novel in that history, the conflict between her complex heritage, and her own identity as a writer, became a battle that nearly killed her. This book takes the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle.

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