Edith Maryon was the second of six children. Her parents were John Maryon Simeon and his wife Louisa Church who lived in London where she grew up. She attended a girls school and later went to a boarding school in the Swiss city of
Geneva. During the 1890s she studied sculpture in London at the Central School of Design, and from 1896 at the
Royal College of Arts. One of her professors there,
Édouard Lantéri, termed Maryon and fellow student
Benjamin Clemens his best students. The sculpture was intended to present, in contrast to Michelangelo's
Last Judgment, Christ as mute and impersonal such that the beings that approach him must judge themselves. At a foundation meeting held during Christmas 1923 Steiner nominated Maryon as leader of the Section for the Plastic Arts at the Goetheanum (or Sculptural Arts) (German
Sektion für Bildende Künste). The following May, she died of
tuberculosis. == References ==