Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin was the wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin. She married Darwin, her first cousin, on 29 January 1839. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
Portrait of Emma Darwin, 1840
Emma with her son Leonard, 1853
In older age
Anne Darwin
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Anne Elizabeth Darwin was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.
Emma Darwin
…in dealing with her husband's long-term illness. She also nursed her children through frequent illnesses, and endured the deaths of three of them: Anne, Mary, and Charles Waring. By the mid-1850s she was known throughout the parish for helping in the way a parson's wife might be expected to, giving out…
Darwin in 1849
Anne's grave in Great Malvern