Elinor Darwin

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Device of the Dun Emer Press, designed by Elinor Monsell about 1903

Elinor Mary Darwin (née Monsell), (1871 – 1954) was an Irish engraver and portrait painter.

She was born in Limerick, Munster and studied at the Slade School of Art in London, earning a scholarship in 1896.

She married Bernard Darwin, the golf writer grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1906. Their children were Ursula Darwin (born 1908-2011) and Sir Robert Vere Darwin (1910–1974).

She illustrated some of her husband's books for children, such as the "Tale Of Mr. Tootleoo" and "Every Idle Dream". She taught her husband's cousin Gwen Raverat engraving. She also designed the Abbey Theatre logo. Her brother John Robert Monsell was a children's author and illustrator, and collaborated with Herbert Hughes on Rivals!, a 1935 musical version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.

She is buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent; nearby is Down House, the home of the Darwin family.

An obituary, by Sir Charles Tennyson was published in The Times^[1]

References

↑ The Times, Friday, May 07, 1954; pg. 11; Issue 52925; col C Mrs. Elinor Mary Darwin Sir Charles Tennyson. Category: Obituaries

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Name	Darwin, Elinor Mary
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Short description	Irish artist
Date of birth	1871
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Date of death	1954
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