Anne Darwin
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person Anne Elizabeth Darwin (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.
Life
Darwin scholar E. Janet Browne writes: Template:Blockquote
In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters,<ref>Browne 1995, 498</ref> and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis. In vain pursuit of help from James Manby Gully's water cure, Charles Darwin took his daughter to the Worcestershire spa town, Great Malvern. She died in Montreal House on the Worcester Road, aged ten, and was buried in the Great Malvern Priory churchyard.
Anne's death was a terrible blow for her parents.<ref>BBC: Did Darwin Kill God?</ref> Charles wrote in a personal memoir "We have lost the joy of the household, and the solace of our old age.... Oh that she could now know how deeply, how tenderly we do still & and shall ever love her dear joyous face."<ref>Quoted in Browne 1995, 501.</ref>
The loss of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter was softened only by the addition of Horace Darwin, who was born only three weeks after Anne's death on 13 May 1851.
Annie's Box
Around 2000, Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes discovered a box containing keepsakes of Anne collected by Charles and Emma.<ref>GoodReads website, Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution</ref> He wrote a biography of Charles Darwin centred on the relationship between Darwin and his daughter, entitled Annie's Box; the script of the 2009 film Creation is based on the book.<ref>Guardian website, Darwin’s Lost Daughter, article dated June 8, 2002</ref>
Notes
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References
- Keynes, Randal (2001). Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution. Fourth Estate, London. Template:ISBN. (Review)
- Darwin's memorial of Anne Elizabeth Darwin at the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge
- Original letters about Annie's death at the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge
- Browne, Janet (1995). Charles Darwin: Voyaging. New York: Random House. Template:ISBN. (The characterization of Anne Darwin appears on p. 499.)