The Real Kate Greenaway
KATE GREENAWAY, you know, was a real person. I used to talk about Kate Greenaway clothes, the little frilly frocks and old-fashioned boys’ suits, without ever thinking or knowing about the woman who created them. She was born about the middle
of last century, and lived to become one of the most famous illustrators of Victorian children‘s books. As an artist, she was especially fortunate, because her delightful pictures were well printed. Many an artist’s work has been ruined by poor repro-duction-but Kate was luckier. Edmund Evans, who printed her work, was a pioneer in colour-
printing, not only a shrewd man of business, ‘but a man with an appreciation of the beautiful, and himself a clever water-colour artist; Kate was really a homely person, and loved homely things, all the sounds of the Victorian streets, the barrel-organ and the muffin-bell, bands and the sound of church ‘bells, Flowers, too, were a joy to her, and she once wrote that "she struck up a friendship with flowers" at an early age.-(" Letters to Children." Dorothy Neal, 2YA, January 26.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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183The Real Kate Greenaway New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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