Constance Fox Talbot

Constance Talbot (née Mundy, 30 January 1811 – 9 September 1880) was from 1832 the wife of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the key players in the development of photography in the 1830s and 1840s. She herself briefly experimented with the process as early as 1839 and has been credited as the first woman ever to take a photograph – a hazy image of a short verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore.

Constance, who came from Markeaton in Derbyshire, was the youngest daughter of Francis Mundy (1771–1837), Member of Parliament for that county from 1822 to 1831.