The Wedgwood Museum

Frances Julia 'Snow' Wedgwood was the daughter and eldest child of Hensleigh Wedgwood and his wife Fanny Mackintosh (and great-grand-daughter of Josiah I). She was an English feminist novelist, biographer, historian and literary critic who became a close friend of the poet, Robert Browning. Deaf since childhood, she received little formal education – yet she taught herself Latin, Greek, French and German. She wrote an acclaimed study of the life of John Wesley, and her article on the theological significance of 'The Origin of Species' was welcomed by her father’s cousin, Charles Darwin, who welcomed her analysis and commented that she had understood his work perfectly.