Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was a major intellectual force of the Victorian period. She wrote two biographies, two major books - The Moral Ideal (1888) and The Message of Israel (1894) - and over 100 journal articles, a few collected as Nineteenth-Century Teachers (1909).
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​She was the niece of Charles Darwin, the second love of Robert Browning, and a mentor to E. M. Forster. Her female friends included Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, and Frances Power Cobbe.
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Some of her key interests:
How do we reconcile science and religion, Darwinism and Christianity?
How have ideas developed historically by reacting against each other?
What moral lessons can we learn from the major world civilisations?
What's distinctive about Christian and modern thought compared to Ancient Greece and Rome?
What is nature?
Do we have free will? How should we understand our existence, torn between spirit and nature?
How does fiction illuminate historical upheavals in thought?​
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Wedgwood was also a feminist and advocate for animal welfare.
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