Elinor Darwin

Elinor Darwin

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) 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.


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