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Darwin Correspondence Project

Margaret Josephine (Margaret) Shaen

1853–1936

Author and amateur photographer. A friend of Emma Darwin. Daughter of the lawyer William Shaen. Edited a memoir of her aunts, Catherine and Susanna Winkworth (1908), and wrote a biography of her father (1912). Photographed Emma Darwin in 1896.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/18/64/55)

Emma Darwin (1904) 1: facing p. 458

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 December 2016)

Freeman 1978

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

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