Marian Collier (painter)

[5] She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

[4] On 30 June 1879 Huxley married the British writer and portrait painter, John Collier, also a Slade graduate.

[5] After the birth of Joyce, Huxley suffered from "nervous hysteria" (possibly postpartum depression) and in November 1887 she was taken to Paris for treatment with Jean-Martin Charcot, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in December 1887.

[6] She had erratic behavior and possibly mental illness, which appeared to increase in symptoms before she died.

[7] After Marion died, John Collier married her younger sister Emma Huxley in 1889 in Norway.