Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgwood (9 July 1833-26 November 1913) was an English feminist novelist, biographer, historian and literary critic. She was "a young woman of extreme passions and fastidious principles" (B. Wedgwood and H. Wedgwood 1980, p. 259).

Wedgwood was the daughter and the eldest of the six children of Hensleigh Wedgwood

Hensleigh Wedgwood

Hensleigh Wedgwood was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of A Dictionary of English Etymology. Wedgwood was the fourth son of Josiah Wedgwood II and Elizabeth Allen...

 and his wife Fanny Mackintosh, the daughter of Sir James Mackintosh

James Mackintosh

Sir James Mackintosh was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.-Early life:Mackintosh was born at...

. She was a great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. A prominent abolitionist, Wedgwood is remembered for his "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family...

. She was niece to Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

, and later in life helped him to translate the works of Linnaeus. She was a close friend of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...

.

She was a friend of Mrs Gaskell, who was related to her.

External links

• Frances Julia Wedgwood, 1833–1913(Wedgwood, Snow) :: Darwin Correspondence Project – with links to her letters to and from Charles Darwin
  Charles Darwin
  Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
  
  , retrieved 2010-10-21
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Wedgwood, (Frances) Julia