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Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 – 17 December 1927) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent, in 1843.
Henrietta “Etty” Darwin (1843–1927) was the eldest of Charles Darwin’s daughters to reach adulthood. She married Richard Buckley Litchfield in 1871. She was a valued editor to her father as well as companion and correspondent to both of her parents.
The Darwin Correspondence Project (www.darwinproject.ac.uk), with the permission of Darwin’s family, is making public for the first time the short, intense and hugely revealing personal journal of Darwin’s daughter Henrietta.
Henrietta Darwin’s Diary: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Part Two. In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men’s College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe, Kent, on 31 August.
21 feb 2017 · Henrietta ‘Etty’ Emma Darwin (1843–1927) Henrietta, their third daughter, also suffered from scarlet fever and a typhoid-like illness and relapsed into becoming a chronic invalid. Browne (2002) described this accurately: ‘Henrietta did make a full recovery in the end and lived to a great old age.
- John Hayman, Gonzalo Álvarez, Francisco C Ceballos, Tim M. Berra, Tim M. Berra
- 2017
In a very rare glimpse of the intellectual life of the women in Darwin’s circle, Henrietta reflects on a wide-ranging debate with one of her cousins, Frances Julia Wedgwood – known to the family as Snow – on free will, good and evil, and the possibility of eternal life.
Charles Darwin’s iconic ‘Tree of Life’ sketch – which was stolen and then returned to Cambridge University Library more than two decades after its disappearance – will go on public display for the first time this century in a major new exhibition opening on Saturday, July 9.
