PART OF THE PATTERN: MEMOIRS OF A WIFE AT WESTMINSTER

EMMA DARWIN: THE INSPIRATIONAL WIFE OF A GENIUS

Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of Josiah, three years after returning from his voyage round the world on the Beagle. She brought a wider cultural dimension to his life but the marriage was overshadowed by the loss of two of their ten babies and the death of a ten-year-old daughter.

WIVES OF FAME

Portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingstone, Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, especially at this period in history, demanded rare qualities.