Elinor Darwin

Coordinates: 51°20′10″N 0°03′14″E / 51.336°N 0.054°E / 51.336; 0.054
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Elinor Mary Darwin
Born
Elinor Mary Monsell

1879
Slade School of Art
Known forEngraver, painter
SpouseBernard Darwin
Lady Emer beside a tree, Device of Dun Emer Press, designed by Elinor Monsell about 1903

Elinor Mary Darwin (née Monsell; 1879–1954) was an Irish born illustrator, engraver and portrait painter. Her illustrations were included in several of her husband, Bernard Darwin's books for children.

Personal life

Elinor Mary Monsell was born in

Postmaster General.[1][2][3][4]

At 17 years of age Elinor left Ireland for London.

Herbert Hughes on Rivals!, a 1935 musical version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals
.

She married

Robert Vere Darwin (1910–1974).[7]

Prior to World War II many Darwin family members became members of the

Eugenics Society. Elinor became one of the Fellows of the Society, as did Leonard Darwin's wife Mildred and other Darwin wives.[9]

She is buried in

Education

She studied at the

earning a scholarship in 1896.

Career

'Daphne and Apollo' woodcut published in The Venture; an Annual of Art and Literature 1903

Elinor was active from about 1899 to 1929.

Queen Maeve with one of her wolfhounds that appeared on the Abbey Theatre programmes beginning in 1904. She created the cover for Stephen Gwynn's The Fair Hills of Ireland, which was published in 1906. In 1907 Dun Emer Press's first pressmark was a wood engraving that she made of Lady Emer beside a tree.[11][14]

She illustrated some of her husband's books for children, such as the Tale Of Mr. Tootleoo,[15] Every Idle Dream,[16] and Mr. Tootleoo and Company.[17] Her illustrations, and those of J.B. Yeats and William Orpen, were included in the Second Annual Volume of The Shanachie, an "Irish Miscellany Illustrated" which included works be many Irish writer, including W. B. Yeats, Stephen Gwynn, Lady Gregory and George Bernard Shaw.[11][18]

Darwin taught her husband's cousin Gwen Raverat engraving.[19]

Her paintings A Doorway, Child with Toy Bird, and The Annunciation were exhibited in 1913 at the Whitechapel Exhibition of Irish Art in London.

Aubrey Thomas De Vere when he was 87 years old.[21]

References

  1. ^ Lodge's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage of the British Empire, John Lodge, 1907, p. 707.
  2. ^ The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971 Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms, L. G. Pine, Heraldry Today, London, 1972, p. 115.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th ed., 2003, vol. 2, p. 2038.
  4. ^ a b Joseph Jackson Howard. Visitation of England and Wales. Priv. print.; 1905. p. 9.
  5. ^ Ruth Hill Viguers. Illustrators of Children's Books, 1744–1945: Supplement, 1946–1956. Horn Book; 1958. p. 296.
  6. . p. 19.
  7. ^ . p. 130.
  8. ^ Whiting, David (3 February 2010). "Ursula Mommens obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  9. . p. 129.
  10. ^ Sir Charles Tennyson, "Obituary: Mrs. Elinor Mary Darwin." The Times, Friday, May 07, 1954; pg. 11; Issue 52925; col C.
  11. ^ . p. 401.
  12. . p. 120, 357.
  13. . pp. 391–401.
  14. ^ Dun Emer Press; Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; Elinor Darwin. The Dun Emer Press May 1908. Dun Emer Press; 1908.
  15. ^ Bernard Darwin; Elinor Darwin. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo. Nonesuch Press; 1925.
  16. ^ Bernard Darwin. Every Idle Dream ... With Illustrations by Elinor Darwin. [Essays.].. London; 1948.
  17. ^ Bernard Darwin; Elinor Darwin. Mr. Tootleoo and Co. Faber & Faber; 1935.
  18. ^ The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record, Volume 87. London: Office of "The Publishers Circular," Limited; 1907. p. 96.
  19. . p. 132.
  20. . p. 176.
  21. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "De Vere, Aubrey Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 492–493.

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