Alice Brooke Bodington
| Alice Brooke Bodington | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alice Brooke 1840 |
| Died | 1897 |
| Spouse(s) |
Edward William Derrington Bell 1857-69 George Fowler Bodington 1873-97 |
Alice Brooke Bodington or Alice Brook (1840 – 1897) was a researcher and writer in the field of biology and evolution.
Life
Alice Brooke was born in 1840. She was brought up by her father's mother. She married General Bell, divorced, and married George? Bodington. They had two children and they emigrated to Canada attracted by stories of the new life in Canada.[1]
She wrote for the Westminster Review on scientific matters and particularly evolution. She discussed the development of the brain and she is now notable because of her arguments for the inferiority of Africans.[2] Her single book was criticised because she had written that she did not understand why writers on Science were meant to perform experiments.[3]
Works
- "Curiosities of Evolution", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 33, October 1888
- Studies in Evolution and Biology (1890)
- The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the "Negro Question" (October, 1890), Westminster Review [2]
References
- ↑ Bernard Lightman (15 October 2009). Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. University of Chicago Press. pp. 462–466. ISBN 978-0-226-48117-3.
- 1 2 The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the "Negro Question, Google books
- ↑ Andrea Broomfield; Sally Mitchell (16 December 2013). Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology. Routledge. pp. 505–507. ISBN 978-1-317-77759-5.