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 1908-2011) 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. Her brother John Robert Monsell was a children's author and illustrator, and collaborated with Herbert Hughes on Rivals!, a 1935 musical version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.
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| Name | Darwin, Elinor Mary |
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| Short description | Irish artist |
| Date of birth | 1871 |
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| Date of death | 1954 |
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“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)