Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has written extensively on Victorian England, including The De-Moralization of Society, Poverty and Compassion, The Idea of Poverty, On Liberty and Liberalism, and Victorian Minds. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Absorbing, well written, and splendidly organized.
*I. Bernard Cohen*
An illuminating contribution...a dramatic story.
*Yale Review*
A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of
humor.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The book will place in clearer perspective the role of Darwin in
nineteenth-century thought.
*The New York Times*
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