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Lady Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin
1864–1920
An English playwright with deep ties to one of Britain’s most remarkable intellectual families, she wrote fiction and drama that stayed closely attuned to character and everyday life. Her work includes the posthumously published collection Six Plays and the novel The Green Broom.
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Six Plays
by Lady Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin
About the author
Born in Kensington in 1864, Florence Henrietta Darwin, Lady Darwin, was an English playwright. She was born Florence Henrietta Fisher, later became Florence Maitland through her first marriage, and in 1913 married Sir Francis Darwin, a botanist and son of Charles Darwin.
She is best remembered for her writing for the stage. A portrait from the frontispiece of Six Plays appears on her Wikipedia biography, and records from Cambridge archives identify her as a playwright born on January 31, 1864, and dying on March 5, 1920.
Though not widely known today, she belonged to a strikingly literary and scholarly circle, and her surviving work suggests a writer interested less in spectacle than in people, relationships, and the texture of ordinary life.