Edith Rebecca Trumble Ward was born in 1888 in Clifton Hill, Victoria, the daughter of Alfred Trumble Ward and Emma Hodgson. She became an enthusiastic amateur photographer. exhibiting her work in local shows in Bendigo and mentoring her niece, the photographer Mattie Hodgson. In 1921 she married a grazier, Richard Charles Darton, who was killed in a motorcycle accident later that year.
After her father’s death in 1923 she moved to Perth to live with her sister Ellen Hodgson. By 1931 she was a student of Flora Landells at her Maylands School of Art and exhibited in the 1931 exhibition organized by Landells in the Industries Hall in Barrack Street, Perth. When Lottie Lapsley, Mrs Irving died in 1936, Edith Darton taught china painting at the Young Women’s Christian Association. There is a lovely lustre compote/vase in a private collection in Perth.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2020
