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SUMMARY:Darwin's children - Charissa Varma\, Darwin Correspondence Project
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:In 1852 Charles Darwin wrote to his cousin William Fox Darwin 
 about  his sister Susan's heroic work to remedy a particularly deplorable 
 situation suffered by the children of the poor: \n\n"Susan has lately been
  working in a way\, which I think truly heroic about the scandalous violat
 ion of the act against children climbing chimneys. We have set up a little
  Society in Shrewsbury to prosecute those who break the Law. . . . It make
 s one shudder to fancy one of one's own children at 7 years old being forc
 ed up a chimney—to say nothing of the consequent loathsome disease\, & u
 lcerlated limbs\, & utter moral degradation." \n\nThe Darwin children\, as
  implied from this excerpt\, were raised in a safe\, comfortable\, in many
  ways unremarkable upper-middle-class home. This normally hidden domestic 
 sphere\, though\, can be illuminated through their myriad voices. In this 
 talk I will share some of the Darwin children's thoughts on their childhoo
 d to provide a glimpse into the working life of a man of science stationed
  at home and how his work schedule was inextricably intertwined with the p
 leasures and pitfalls of domestic life. 
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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