Elinor Darwin

Elinor Mary Darwin (née Monsell; 1879–1954) was an Irish born illustrator, engraver and portrait painter.

John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811–1875), vicar of Egham, Surrey, was first cousin to William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly; William Thomas served as Lord Emly's private secretary during his time as Postmaster General.

She married Bernard Darwin on Tuesday, 31 July 1906 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea in London, England.

[12] Before she married, Elinor Monsell was one of the illustrators that worked with W. B. Yeats, whom she met in 1899 at Coole Park.

She created a pearwood engraving of a romantic image of Queen Maeve with one of her wolfhounds that appeared on the Abbey Theatre programmes beginning in 1904.

Lady Emer beside a tree, Device of Dun Emer Press , designed by Elinor Monsell about 1903
'Daphne and Apollo' woodcut published in The Venture; an Annual of Art and Literature 1903