Samantha Evans's "Darwin and Women," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters by Samantha Evans.

The entry begins:

It's odd you should ask about who would play my characters -- or really, correspondents -- in a film, as I've always had a strong idea that my Emma Darwin would be Kathy Bates. She has exactly that mix of shrewdness, practicality, and serenity that I associate with Emma. There aren't many images of Emma in circulation and most people probably have only seen the watercolour of her as a very pretty young girl. In her letters she's intelligent (she was particularly interested in politics), funny, and has sometimes has an extremely sharp tongue.

I'm always stumped by who would play Charles Darwin though. Paul...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Darwin and Women.

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