“Had Shelley only lived longer, he might have succeeded in harmonising his views of Nature with those so luminously developed by Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and other scientific thinkers.”

Imagining how a longer life might have brought Romantic poetry into dialogue with evolutionary science · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

• Nature
• Poetry
• Time

“The wish to live, of letting whatever energies you possess have their full play in action, is continually thwarted by the impediments and restrictions of sex.”

Describing how social restrictions can obstruct the full exercise of a woman's powers · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Despair
• Freedom

“Inch by inch every available space of air, of earth, and of water is contested, fought for, finally conquered by some living creature or other.”

Condensing natural selection into an image of ceaseless competition for space · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

• Mortality
• Nature