Editing Anne Darwin

{{Short description|Daughter of Charles Darwin}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Anne Darwin
|image = Annie Darwin.jpg
|caption = Darwin in 1849
|birth_name = Anne Elizabeth Darwin
|birth_date = 2 March 1841
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death date and age|1851|4|23|1841|3|2|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Great Malvern]], [[Worcestershire]], England
|death_cause =
|resting_place =
|relations = ''See'' [[Darwin–Wedgwood family]]
|mother = [[Emma Darwin|Emma Wedgwood]]
|father = [[Charles Darwin]]
|nickname = Annie
}}
'''Anne Elizabeth Darwin''' (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of [[Charles Darwin|Charles]] and [[Emma Darwin]].
[[File:Headstone of Anne Darwin 05.jpg|alt=Front image of the headstone|thumb|right|Anne's grave in [[Great Malvern]]]]

==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.

==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>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/919173.Darwin_His_Daughter_and_Human_Evolution  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 (2009 film)|Creation]]'' is based on the book.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview42  Guardian website, ''Darwin’s Lost Daughter'', article dated June 8, 2002]</ref>

==Notes==

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==References==
*[[Randal Keynes|Keynes, Randal]] (2001). ''Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution''. Fourth Estate, London. {{ISBN|978-1-84115-060-4}}. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160801120622/http://www.aboutdarwin.com/literature/Review.html Review])
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100219221249/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/death-of-anne-darwin  Darwin's memorial of Anne Elizabeth Darwin at the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge]
*[http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/darwins-life-letters/darwin-letters-1851-1855-death-daughter  Original letters about Annie's death at the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge]
*[[E. Janet Browne|Browne, Janet]] (1995). ''Charles Darwin: Voyaging''.  New York:  Random House.  {{ISBN|0-691-02606-8}}. (The characterization of Anne Darwin appears on p.&nbsp;499.)

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