Henrietta Litchfield

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1843 – 1929

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Who was Henrietta Litchfield?

Henrietta Emma Litchfield, née Darwin, was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood.

Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent in 1843. She was Darwin's third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest, Annie, died aged 10, and a second daughter, Mary, died before she was a month old. She and her brother Frank helped their father with his work, and Henrietta helped edit The Descent of Man.

In August 1871, she married Richard Buckley Litchfield, who was born in Yarpole, near Leominster, in 1832; the couple had no children. She was widowed on 11 January 1903, when Richard died in Cannes, France.

Henrietta edited Charles Darwin's biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, and The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, removing several contentious passages. She also edited her mother's private papers. She responded to the Lady Hope Story that her father had undergone a deathbed conversion by writing an article in The Christian in 1922 saying it "[had] no foundation whatever". She died in Burrows Hill, Gomshall, Surrey, aged 84. An obituary was in The Times

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Born
Sep 25, 1843
Down House
Also known as
  • Henrietta Emma Darwin
  • Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin
  • Etty Darwin
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Nationality
  • England
Lived in
  • Downe
Died
Dec 17, 1929
Gomshall

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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