Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 – 17 December 1927) was the daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. She was also nicknamed Etty.

Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent, in 1843. She was Darwin's third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest, Annie, died aged 10, and a second daughter, Mary, died before she was a month old.

On 31 August 1871, she married Richard Buckley Litchfield, the couple had no children. She was widowed on 11 January 1903, when Richard died in Cannes, France;

References

  • Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood – an autobiographical work by Gwen Raverat.
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