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Emily Jane Pfeiffer

2013-03-08T16:26:26Z

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Emily Jane Pfeiffer née Davis (26 November 1827 - 23 January 1890) was a poet. In her childhood, her family lacked the resources to send her to school, but her father, Thomas Richard Davis, encouraged her to paint and write poetry. In 1842, Pfeiffer published her first book, ''The holly branch, an album for 1843''. In 1850, she married Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, a tea merchant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pfeiffer, Emily Jane|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22084|work=Oxford dictionary of national biography|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref> Pfeiffer was a prolific writer, publishing several books and compilations of poems. Her 1876 collection, ''Poems'', was a critical success; ''Flowers of the night'', a collection of sonnets published in 1889, after the death of her husband, dealt with themes of grief and consolation as well as the disadvantageous legal position of women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emily Jane Pfeiffer|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=pfeiem|work=Orlando: women's writings in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref>

After reading [[Charles Darwin]]'s [[Descent of Man]] (1871), Pfeiffer wrote Darwin to question his description of sexual selection; she took issue with the idea that birds had sufficient aesthetic sophistication to select their partners based on beauty. Instead, Pfeiffer thought it plausible that birds selected partners that they found aesthetically fascinating or alluring.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online Calendar|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-7411|work=Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref> Darwin agreed that Pfeiffer's use of the term "fascination" was appropriate to describe the mechanism by which sexual selection functioned.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online calendar|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-7719F|work=Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref>

Pfeiffer left some of her property to her niece and sisters, but the bulk of it, in accordance with the wishes of her husband, who had left her all his wealth, went to promote women's education, and establish an orphanage for girls.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emily Jane Pfeiffer: life screen|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/svPeople?people_tab=3&formname=r&heading=h&person_id=pfeiem#DeathsandDonations|work=Orlando: women's writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present}}</ref>

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2013-03-08T16:25:11Z

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Emily Jane Pfeiffer née Davis (26 November 1827 - 23 January 1890) was a poet. In her childhood, her family lacked the resources to send her to school, but her father, Thomas Richard Davis, encouraged her to paint and write poetry. In 1842, Pfeiffer published her first book, ''The holly branch, an album for 1843''. In 1850, she married Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, a tea merchant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pfeiffer, Emily Jane|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22084|work=Oxford dictionary of national biography|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref> Pfeiffer was a prolific writer, publishing several books and compilations of poems. Her 1876 collection, ''Poems'', was a critical success; ''Flowers of the night'', a collection of sonnets published in 1889, after the death of her husband, dealt with themes of grief and consolation as well as the disadvantageous legal position of women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emily Jane Pfeiffer|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=pfeiem|work=Orlando: women's writings in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref>

After reading [[Charles Darwin]]'s [[Descent of Man]] (1871), Pfeiffer wrote Darwin to question his description of sexual selection; she took issue with the idea that birds had sufficient aesthetic sophistication to select their partners based on beauty. Instead, Pfeiffer thought it plausible that birds selected partners that they found aesthetically fascinating or alluring.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online Calendar|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-7411|work=Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref> Darwin agreed that Pfeiffer's use of the term "fascination" was appropriate to describe the mechanism by which sexual selection functioned.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online calendar|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-7719F|work=Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref>

Pfeiffer left some of her property to her niece and sisters, but the bulk of it, in accordance with the wishes of her husband, who had left her all his wealth, went to promote women's education, and establish an orphanage for girls.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emily Jane Pfeiffer: life screen|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/svPeople?people_tab=3&formname=r&heading=h&person_id=pfeiem#DeathsandDonations|work=Orlando: women's writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present}}</ref>

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Henrietta Litchfield

2013-03-08T15:50:58Z

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'''Henrietta Emma Darwin''' (25 September 1843<ref>{{cite book|last=Freeman|first=R.B.|title=Charles Darwin, a companion|year=1978|publisher=W. Dawson|location=Folkestone, Eng.|isbn=0208017399}}</ref> - 17 December 1927<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's landed gentry|year=1952|publisher=Burke's Peerage|location=London}}</ref> ) was a daughter of [[Charles Darwin]] and his wife [[Emma Wedgwood]].

Henrietta was born at [[Down House]], [[Downe]], Kent in 1843. She was Darwin's third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest, [[Anne Darwin|Annie]], died aged 10, and a second daughter, Mary, died before she was a month old.<ref>{{cite book|last=Freeman|first=R.B.|title=Charles Darwin, a companion|year=1978|publisher=W. Dawson|location=Folkestone, Eng.|isbn=0208017399}}</ref> She and her brother [[Francis Darwin|Frank]] helped their father with his work, and Henrietta helped edit ''[[The Descent of Man]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online Calendar|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-7605|work=Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=8 March 2013}}</ref>

In August 1871, she married [[Richard Buckley Litchfield]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Freeman|first=R.B.|title=Charles Darwin, a companion|year=1978|publisher=W. Dawson|location=Folkestone, Eng.|isbn=0208017399}}</ref> who was born in Yarpole, near Leominster, in 1832;<ref>{{cite web|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=litchfield&suro=c&fir=richard+buckley&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50|work=A Cambridge alumni database}}</ref> the couple did not have any children. She was widowed on 11 January 1903, when Richard died in [[Cannes]], [[France]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=litchfield&suro=c&fir=richard+buckley&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50|work=A Cambridge alumni database}}</ref>

Henrietta edited Charles Darwin's biography of his grandfather [[Erasmus Darwin]], ''[[The Life of Erasmus Darwin]]'', and ''[[The Autobiography of Charles Darwin]]'', removing several contentious passages. She also edited her mother's private papers ([http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN26026970&id=vMgEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc ''Emma Darwin: wife of Charles Darwin. A Century of Family Letters'']) (1904). She responded to the [[Lady Hope Story]] that her father had undergone a [[deathbed conversion]] by writing an article in ''The Christian'' in 1922 saying it "[had] no foundation whatever". She died in [[Burrows Hill]], [[Gomshall]], [[Surrey]], aged 84.

She is buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, [[Downe, Kent|Downe]], Kent. Nearby is [[Down House]], the home of the Darwin family. Other Darwins, including her mother, are buried in the same churchyard.

== References ==
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* [[Period Piece (book)|Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood]] – an autobiographical work by [[Gwen Raverat]].

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2013-03-08T13:29:55Z

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2013-03-08T13:29:18Z

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2013-03-08T13:24:06Z

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2013-03-08T13:21:53Z

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2013-03-08T13:19:58Z

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2013-03-08T13:19:14Z

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