Florence Anderson
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Florence Mary Anderson was an English artist, book illustrator, wood engraver and children's author who flourished between 1914 and 1930. She also illustrated under her maiden name of Molly MacArthur or Florence Mary MacArthur. Her work was influenced by the British school of Fairy Art
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Though she wrote some books, it is as an illustrator, in watercolour and black and white, of children's books and annuals that Anderson is chiefly remembered. Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for Lady Margaret Sackville
's The Dream Pedlar, published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that followed, including work for:
Fairy painting
Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail. The genre is most closely associated with the Victorian era in Great Britain, but has experienced a contemporary revival...
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Though she wrote some books, it is as an illustrator, in watercolour and black and white, of children's books and annuals that Anderson is chiefly remembered. Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for Lady Margaret Sackville
Lady Margaret Sackville
Lady Margaret Sackville was an English poet and children’s author.-Life:Born at 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, Lady Margaret was the youngest child of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, who died when she was fourteen...
's The Dream Pedlar, published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that followed, including work for:
- Lady Margaret SackvilleLady Margaret SackvilleLady Margaret Sackville was an English poet and children’s author.-Life:Born at 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, Lady Margaret was the youngest child of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, who died when she was fourteen...
. The Travelling Companions (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1915). - E. Gordon BrowneGordon BrowneGordon Frederick Browne was an English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century....
. Little Dwarf Nose & The Magic Whistle (George G Harrap & Co., 1916). - Christie T Young. The Black Princess and other Fairy Tales from Brazil (1916).
- Edith Howes. The Cradle Ship (London: Cassell, 1916).
- Christine Chaundler. The Magic Kiss (Cassell, 1916).
- Fiona Malcolm. My Fairyland: A Child's Own Visions (London: Harrap, 1916).
- E. Gordon BrowneGordon BrowneGordon Frederick Browne was an English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century....
. Nutcracker and Mouse King (London: Harrap, 1916). - Dorothy BlackDorothy BlackDorothy Black was an actress, born in Johannesburg. Educated at St Andrew's School in Johannesburg and also the Central School of Speech and Drama in London....
. The Adventures in Magic Land and Other Tales (J. Coker & Co. Ltd., 1917). - Florence Mary Anderson. The Rainbow Twins (Joseph Johnson, 1919).
- S R Littlewood. Valentine and OrsonValentine and OrsonValentine and Orson is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle.-Synopsis:It is the story of twin brothers, abandoned in the woods in infancy. Valentine is brought up as a knight at the court of Pippin, while Orson grows up in a bear's den to be a wild man of the woods, until he...
: The Twin Knights of France (London: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co,, 1919). - Edith M Coker. Secrets of the Flowers (London: Jarrolds, 1919).
- Elizabeth Southwart. The Password to Fairyland (London: Simpkin-Marshall, 1920).
- Edith Howes. The Singing Fish (Cassell, 1922).