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Charlotte Haldane
Charlotte Franken Haldane (1894-1969), first wife of geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, was one of the earliest newswomen on Fleet Street and Britain's first female war correspondent. An extraordinarily versatile woman of letters, she wrote twenty novels and biographies, dozens of radio broadcasts, plays and political essays. She was an ardent feminist and, in the 1930s, an active member of the British Communist Party. Her novels and journalism are a valuable register of the most pressing social issues of her day, especially as they concerned women. This literary biography discusses her life and work.
Truth Will Out
Autobiography of a British ex-Communist, formerly the wife of J. B. S. Haldane.
Man's World
In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman’s defiance make a difference? In the not-too-distant future, England’s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be “vocational mothers”—or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world’s most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
Popularizing Science
J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making significant contributions to genetics, physiology, biochemistry, biometry, cosmology, and other sciences. More remarkable, then, is the fact that Haldane had no formal qualification in science. He made frequent appearances in the media, making pronouncements on a variety of poignant topics including mining disasters, meteorites, politics, and the economy, and was a popular scientific essay writer. Haldane also was famed for conducting painful experiments on himself, including several instances in which he permanently injured himself. A staunch Marxist an...
Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.R.S. (1892–1964) was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century, renowned for helping, through statistical wizardry, to reconcile Darwin’s theory of natural selection with Mendel’s discovery of genes. The product of a distinguished family of scientists and public figures, “JBS” trained and influenced a swathe of students and colleagues at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College London, many of whom, such as the evolutionary theorist John Maynard Smith, went on to distinction in their own right. As a widely known left-wing “public intellectual,” Haldane gained fame as a popularizer of science and commentator on public affairs, broadc...
