Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.
Background
"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.".
Career
Eminent Darwin scholar East. Janet Browne writes of her:
"Anne was. She died in Montreal House on the Worcester Road, aged ten, and was buried in the Great Malvern Priory churchyard. 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."
The loss of Charles Darwin"s beloved daughter was only softened by the addition of Horace Darwin, who was born only three weeks after Anne"s death on 13 May 1851.
Around 2000, Charles Darwin"s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes discovered a box containing keepsakes of Anne collected by Charles and Emma.