Both Speakers have developed teaching materials for schools and universities on Darwin, Hardy and the culture of letter writing.
Angelique Richardson is Professor of English and a historian of science at the University of Exeter, where she leads the Hardy’s Correspondents Project. Her books include Love and Eugenics in the Late 19th Century, After Darwin: Animals, Emotions and the Mind and Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914.
Dr Beth Mills is a University of Exeter Department of English Graduate, with a PHD in English Studies, specialising in Victorian Literature and Science.