Editing Anne Darwin (section)

==Life==
Darwin scholar [[E. Janet Browne]] writes:
{{blockquote|Anne was&nbsp;... the apple of her proud father's eye, his favourite child, he confessed to [his friend and cousin [[William Darwin Fox]]]. More than any of the other children she treated him with a spontaneous affection that touched him deeply; she liked to smooth his hair and pat his clothes into shape, and was by nature self-absorbedly neat and tidy, cutting out delicate bits of paper to put away in her workbox, threading ribbons, and sewing small things for her dolls and make-believe worlds.<ref>Browne, Janet (1995). ''Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging'', p 499.  Knopf, New York.</ref>}}

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 [[hydrotherapy|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]]: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/darwin/?tab=20 ''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.