Books by Emma Townshend

Emma Townshend has degrees in history and history of science from Cambridge, Imperial College and UCL, and her postgraduate thesis involved research about Darwin's correspondence with plant breeders and gardeners. She has taught courses on Darwin since being a postgraduate at Cambridge in 1994, most recently for the Department of Continuing Education in Oxford, and was particularly involved in Oxford's online course project ?All learn', run in cooperation with Stanford and Yale, for which she wrote a course under the aegis of Richard Dawkins.She has recently written on Darwin's connections with the Royal Botanic Garden for Kew Magazine, and will be giving special guided tours of Kew in Darwin's bicentenary year, 2009. A regular guest on radio and TV including the World Service, Radio 4 Womans' Hour, A Hard Act to Follow, and BBC2 Newsnight, Emma Townshend is the Independent on Sunday's weekly garden columnist and writes regularly for the Times' arts pages.