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This is the first biography of a mathematical genius and his literary wife, their wide circle of well-known intellectual and artistic friends, and through them of the age in which they lived. William Clifford died in 1879 at the age of 33. During his short life he became renowned not only for his innovative and lasting mathematics, but also for his philosophy, which embraced the fundamentals of scientific thought, the nature of the physical universe, Darwinian evolutionary theory, the nature of consciousness, personal morality and law, and the whole mystery of being. It is now recognised among mathematicians and physicists that Dirac's theory of the electron, fundamental to modern physics, is based on Clifford algebra. He also anticipated Einstein's idea that space is curved. The year after his election to the Royal Society, Clifford married Lucy Lane, the journalist and novelist. During their four years of marriage they held Sunday salons which were attended by many well-known scientific, literary and artistic personalities. After William's death, Lucy became a close friend and confidante of Henry James. Her wide circle of friends included Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Huxley, Sir Frederick Macmillan, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Monty Chisholm has researched the lives of these two influential people from archive material, biographies of those who knew them, and hitherto unpublished collections of letters. Her insight, not only into the lives of the Cliffords, but also into the period in which they lived, makes for fascinating and lively reading. The book is further enhanced by a personal reflection on William Clifford's mathematics in the Afterword by the celebrated mathematician Sir Roger Penrose O.M. Download the Contents and Introduction here (PDF, 74 KB) Download Chapter 1 - Lucy's Early Years 1846-1875 here (PDF, 83 KB) Download Chapter 2 - William's Childhood in Exeter 1845-1863 here (PDF, 132 KB)
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reviewed Such Silver Currents: The Story of William and Lucy Clifford 1845-1929 on December 31, 2012
Such Silver Currents: The Story of William and Lucy Clifford 1845-1929
Mrs. Gaskell continues to serve overwritten Victorian treacle dedicated to the memory of Charlotte Brontë in this second volume. The introduction by Alan Shelston in the 1975 edition points out Mrs. Gaskell's omissions and deletions (some due to Charlotte's main correspondent, Ellen Nussey), and her anxiety to please both Charlotte's father Patrick, and her husband Arthur Nicholls. This volume covers the Brontë sisters' literary success and then the quickly following deaths of Branwell, Emily, and Anne within nine months' time. Charlotte recovers after a period of grief and depression, and goes on to exchange letters and visits with the literary people of the day, including Thackeray, whom she counts as the greatest living author of her time. Despite her London visits, and her widening circle of acquaintance, she persists in an almost pathological shyness and a dread of meeting new people. The introduction claims that Mrs. Gaskell shaped the Life of Charlotte Brontë to her own morbid and moral purposes, and painted Charlotte's life as bleaker than it actually was. But even without her sentimentalizing, the bare facts of Charlotte Brontë's life are bleak enough. The saddest fact is the needlessness of her own death, the result of a pregnancy which seemed ill-advised given Charlotte's weak constitution and the high maternal mortality rate of the day. Still, it's consistent with the prevailing religiously-tinged fatalism of the time, as well as Charlotte's self-abnegating character as she is portrayed in the Life.
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