Pearson is perhaps most familiar to the general reader as an advocate of eugenics. For an introduction and guide to this literature see MacKenzie and<\/p>\n
G. R. Searle (1976) Eugenics and Politics in Britain 1900-1914. Leyden: Noordhoff.<\/p>\n
D. J. Kevles (1985) In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity, New York: Knopf.<\/p>\n
P. M. H. Mazumdar (1992) Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n
Kevles has a valuable bibliographical essay.<\/p>\n
There are 2 short extracts from Pearson\u2019s writings on eugenics in<\/p>\n
Lucy Bland & Laura Doan (eds) (1998) Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science, Chicago: Chicago University Press. (Table of contents)<\/p>\n
There is an essay<\/p>\n
Carolyn Burdett \u201cFrom the New Werther to Numbers and Arguments: Karl Pearson\u2019s Eugenics\u201d in Roger Luckhurst & Josephine McDonagh (eds) (2002) Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Manchester: Manchester University Press.<\/p>\n
Pearson\u2019s participation in the Men and Women\u2019s Club (in existence from 1885 to 1889) and his marriage to Maria Sharpe are discussed by Porter (2004) and by<\/p>\n
L. Bland (1995) Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885-1914, London: Penguin.<\/p>\n
The Club is also discussed in<\/p>\n
Judith R. Walkowitz, (1986) Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club, 1885-1889, History Workshop, no. 21 (Spring), 37-59.<\/p>\n
Judith R. Walkowitz (1992) City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, London: Virago. (review by Lesley A. Hall)<\/p>\n
Elaine Showalter (1990) Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin-de-Siecle, New York: Viking.<\/p>\n
Olive Schreiner (Burdett) was the Club\u2019s best-known woman member. There are accounts of her relationship with Pearson in<\/p>\n
Ruth First & Ann Scott (1980) Olive Schreiner, London: Deutsch.<\/p>\n
Carolyn Burdett (2001) Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire, Basingstoke: Palgrave.<\/p>\n
The biography of another novelist, Amy Levy, discusses her relationship with Pearson<\/p>\n
Christine Pullen (2010) The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy,\u00a0 Kingston University Press.<\/p>\n
The careers of two of KP\u2019s female colleagues are described by<\/p>\n
R. Love (1979) Alice in Eugenics Land: Feminism and Eugenics in the Scientific Careers of Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton, Annals of Science, 36, 145-158.<\/p>\n
Semmel pioneered the study of Pearson\u2019s social ideology in its historical context<\/p>\n
B. Semmel (1960) Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought 1895-1914, London: George Allen & Unwin.<\/p>\n
There are later references in Olby. See also MacKenzie and Porter (1994 and \u201399).<\/p>\n
Pearson also appears in Jones\u2019s more sociologically oriented study<\/p>\n
Greta Jones (1980) Social Darwinism and English Thought: the Interaction between Biological and Social Theory, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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