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Previously known only to a few scholars familiar with the additional holdings of the Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library, Emma Darwin’s diaries are made available here through the kindness of their owner, Professor Richard Darwin Keynes. These pocket diaries have generously been on deposit in the Darwin Archive for a number of years. They provide a wonderful historical resource, not only for Darwin scholars but also as a social document of prosperous middle-class life in the Victorian era. Darwin Online is proud to present facsimiles of the entire extant collection of Emma Darwin’s diaries. The first diary is dated 1824, when Emma Wedgwood was sixteen, a lively and attractive young woman, shortly to participate in a European tour with her sisters and parents, Josiah and Bessy Wedgwood. She married Charles Darwin, her first cousin, in January 1839. The final diary in the collection records the last year of her life.

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