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The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition.
As Darwin's theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, Creation (formerly Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas.
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family's private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.
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Gregory Smith
reviewed Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin on February 19, 2013
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin
To be honest, I didn't know that much about Darwin going into this, only that he was a Victorian biologist who came up with the theory of evolution. So I knew he was important to the study of humanity.
It's devastating to think that he lost a little girl.
Unfortunately, Annie wasn't the only young child to die in the Victorian Age (or any age).
There's a moment in the book where Keynes (a descendant of Darwin) mentions, briefly, a young "watercress" girl - an urchin selling watercress, from the poorest community in London, and I thought OH HERE WE GO - juxtaposition, which is always so fascinating to me. The poorest of the poor compared to the petted and pampered Darwin children.
Except not so fast.
It sounds terrible, but I'd rather read more about the watercress girl - Annie is one little girl from a comfortable family. Isn't that the Victorian Ideal? Family values, goodness, devotion, all that jazz?
But the grittier side of history, the wretched watercress children... that one throwaway note that Keynes happened to throw in, was just as much a part of Victorian society, though usually over looked or romanticized by historians.
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