Tag Archives: Erasmus Darwin

autumn leaves: lonely in lichfield

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

She was one of Josiah Wedgwood’s friends. Part of what certainly had to be the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century, and quite possibly the most eccentric. Some are forgotten today like Anna Seward, and she was certainly … Continue reading →

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day: doomed in duplicate

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood’s friends numbered some brilliant but odd types. Most are forgotten today. Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity… Thomas Day was even stranger than Erasmus Darwin, whom … Continue reading →

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Darwin: going rogue in the Midlands

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood’s friends were the most brilliant group in England, and clearly the most eccentric. Most are forgotten today, but some of them changed the world… Thomas Bentley preferred to exercise his charm rather than to regiment his gifts; Anna … Continue reading →

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wedgwood: going lunar

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood and his cohorts. The most brilliant group in England and likely the most eccentric. Many have passed into the forgotten mists of history, but some of them changed the world… …These scientific interests found their formal expression in … Continue reading →

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friendship circle

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood and his friends. They were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century, and quite possibly the most eccentric.Some are forgotten today. Most actually. But some of them changed the world. it was a kind of parallel … Continue reading →

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picture this

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Children should be seen and not heard…. Hard not to learn something when your father, Josiah Wedgwood frequented such illuminaries in the eighteenth century  as James Watt,Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin and on the artistic side, George Stubbs and the poetess … Continue reading →

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wedgwood & friends: bitten by science

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgewood and his friends. They were the most brilliant group in England, and quite possible the most eccentric. Many of them are forgotten today- but some of them changed the world… …It is characteristic of their dual interests that … Continue reading →

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wedgewood : sunshine on the village green

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

Wedgewood and his friends. The were the most brilliant group in England, and quite possibly the most eccentric. Some are forgotten today- but some of them changed the world. Josiah Wedgewood was born in the Staffordshire village called Burslem in … Continue reading →

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suddenly mary

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading →

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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Dave

“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading →

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