Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (London, March 17, 1846 – November 6, 1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legend about the abduction of many children from the town of Hamelin ( Hameln) Germany. Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger For the game see 1846 (board game. Year 1846 ( MDCCCXLVI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the
The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honour in 1955, is awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK to an illustrator of children's books. The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator Kate Greenaway. The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP is a Professional body representing Librarians and other information professionals
New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Photolithography (also called optical lithography) is a process used in Microfabrication to selectively remove parts of a thin film (or the bulk of a substrate Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. Walter Crane (15 August 1845 &ndash 14 March 1915 was an English artist and book illustrator Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 &ndash 12 February 1886 was a British Artist and Illustrator, born in Chester. "Kate Greenaway" children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the time, were dressed in her own versions of late eighteenth century and Regency fashions: smock-frocks and skeleton suits for boys, high-waisted pinafores and dresses with mobcaps and straw bonnets for girls. Fashion in the period 1795-1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades lace periwigs and powder A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment worn by rural workers in England and Wales from at least the early Eighteenth century. A skeleton suit is an outfit of Clothing for small boys popular from about 1790 to 1830 consisting of a tight short- or long- Sleeved coat or jacket A bonnet is a kind of Headgear which is usually brimless Only a few kinds of bonnets are still worn today most commonly by babies The influence of children's clothes in portraits by British painter John Hoppner (1758-1810) may have provided her some inspiration. John Hoppner ( April 4 ? 1758 - January 23, 1810) English portrait- painter, was born in Whitechapel. Liberty's of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. Liberty is a well known store in Great Marlborough Street in central London, England at the heart of the West End shopping district A full generation of mothers in the liberal-minded "artistic" British circles who called themselves "The Souls" and embraced the Arts and Crafts movement dressed their daughters in Kate Greenaway pantaloons and bonnets in the 1880s and '90s. The Souls were a small loosely-knit but distinctive social group in England, from 1885 to about 1920 The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the
She lived in an arts and crafts house she commissioned from Richard Norman Shaw in Frognal, London, although she also spent summers in the small Nottinghamshire village of Rolleston, near Southwell. Richard Norman Shaw RA ( Edinburgh, 7 May 1831 &ndash London, 17 November 1912) was the most influential British architect Frognal is a place in London in the London Borough of Camden between Hampstead and West Hampstead. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire Southwell is a small Town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is best known as the site of Southwell Minster, the seat of the Church
She died of breast cancer in 1901. Breast cancer is a Cancer that starts in the cells of the Breast in women and men
References
- Ina Taylor, The Art of Kate Greenaway: A Nostalgic Portrait of Childhood London, 1991 ISBN 0882898671
External links
- Images & Details of Kate Greenaway Illustrated Greeting / Trade Cards
- Biography and Works
- Kate Greenaway highlights from the Drummond Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi library
- Kate Greenaway's books, full-text searchable with all images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection at the University of Florida Libraries
- Brief biography.
- Works by Kate Greenaway at Project Gutenberg
- Kate Greenaway Pictorial History
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