Henrietta Emma Litchfield was born in Downe, Kent, England back in 1843 to Charles and Emma. Her brother and Henrietta helped their father with his work and edit some of his writings. She married Richard in 1871, the couple had no children. Richard died in 1903 in Cannes, France.
Henrietta edited her father biography, she also edited her mother’s private papers. She died in 1927, she was 84,
What you may not know about Henrietta is that Charles her father was nonother than Charles Darwin, she helped edit The Descent of Man. Like many of you I was told that on his deathbed he had undergone a deathbed conversion. According to her in an article written by her in 1922, that never happened.
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