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Darwin Correspondence Project

Pauline Badel

b. 1851/2 d. 1894 or later

Swiss children’s nurse. Looked after Bernard Darwin from February 1881. Employed by Harriet Wolryche-Whitmore from December 1886. Returned to her brother in Neuchâtel, Switzerland; visited Emma Darwin in 1894.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/855/83/1)

F. Darwin 1920b, pp. 43, 63

letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [13 December 1886] (DAR 219.1: 203)

letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 4 September 1894 (DAR 210.3: 211)

Bibliography

Darwin, Francis. 1920b. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

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