Ellen Wordsworth Darwin

Ellen Wordsworth Darwin
Ellen Wordsworth Darwin in 1903
Born
Ellen Wordsworth Crofts

(1856-01-13)13 January 1856
Leeds, England
Died28 August 1903(1903-08-28) (aged 47)
Occupation(s)Academic, lecturer
Spouse
(m. 1883)
ChildrenFrances Cornford

Ellen Wordsworth Darwin (née Crofts; 13 January 1856 – 28 August 1903) was an academic, a fellow and lecturer in English Literature at Newnham College in Cambridge (1879–1883), a member of the private and scholarly Ladies Dining Society at Cambridge and the second wife of the botanist Sir Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. Their daughter was the poet Frances Cornford.