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Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin. ==Life== According to biographers, she was a delightful child who brought much happiness to her parents. Eminent Darwin scholar E. Janet Browne writes of her: :"''Anne was... the apple of her proud father's eye, his favourite child, he confessed to" (friend and cousin William Darwin ) Fox. "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''."〔Browne, Janet (1995). ''Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging'', p 499. Knopf, New York.〕 In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters,〔Browne 1995, 498〕 and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis. In vain pursuit of help from Gully's water cure, Charles Darwin took his daughter to the Worcestershire spa town, Great Malvern. She died in Montreal House on the Worcester Road, aged ten, and was buried in the Great Malvern Priory churchyard. Annie's death was a terrible blow for her parents.〔BBC: (''Did Darwin Kill God?'' )〕 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."〔Quoted in Browne 1995, 501.〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Darwin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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