From:
Henry Napier Bruce Erskine
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 163: 31–2
Summary:
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.