Florence Henrietta Darwin

[citation needed] As a child, she posed for a series of photographic portraits by her great aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, including A Study of St John the Baptist.

[1] In F. W. Maitland: a Child's-Eye View, her daughter Ermengard mentions Florence's "menagerie of animals, her hours of violin playing, her feeding of tramps and gypsies, her photography and pony-driving, her story-telling and play-writing," and her liking for Thackeray.

[citation needed] In 1886, she married Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906),[2] with whom she had two daughters, Ermengard (1888–1968) and Fredegond (1889–1949).

[citation needed] She died on 5 March 1920[3] and was buried at the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, along with her second husband and his daughter, Frances Cornford.

[citation needed] In 1921, family friend Cecil Sharp posthumously published the compilation Six Plays, which included The New Year, The Seeds of Love, Princess Royal, My Man John, Bushes and Briars and The Lover's Tasks.