Edward Clodd  

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Edward Clodd (1840 – 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist. He had a great variety of literary and scientific friends, who periodically met at Whitsunday (a springtime holiday) gatherings at his home at Aldeburgh in Suffolk.

Works

The following list is incomplete. Biographies of Darwin, Wallace, Bates and Spencer exist.

• 1872: The Childhood of the World
• 1875: The Birth and Growth of Myth and its Survival in Folk-Lore, Legend, and Dogma. Thomas Scott, London
• 1880: Jesus of Nazareth. Kegan Paul, London.
• 1882: Nature Studies. (with Grant Allen, Andrew Wilson, Thomas Foster and Richard Proctor) Wyman, London.
• 1888: The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution
• 1891: Myths and Dreams. Chatto & Windus, London.
• 1893: The Story of Human Origins (with S. Laing). Chapman & Hall, London.
• 1895: A Primer of Evolution Longmans, Green, New York.
• 1895: The Story of "Primitive" Man. Newnes, London; Appleton, New York.
• 1896: The Childhood of Religions. Kegan Paul, London.
• 1897: Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley. Grant Richards, London.
• 1898: Tom Tit Tot: An essay on savage philosophy in folk-tale.
• 1900: The story of the Alphabet. Newnes, London.
• 1900: Grant Allen: A Memoir.
• 1902: Thomas Henry Huxley. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London.
• 1905: Animism: the seed of religion. Constable, London.
• 1916: Memories. Chapman & Hall, London.
• 1917: The Question: If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?. E. J. Clode, New York.
• 1920: Magic in Names & Other Things. Chapman & Hall, London.
• 1922: Occultism. The Hibbert Journal.
• 1922: Occultism: Two Lectures. Watts & Co, London.
• 1923: The Ultimate Guide to Brighton, England. McStewart & Earnshaw, London.