Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (1846-1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. 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 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. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolours to be reproduced. 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.
Part 4 of a 13-part series on the works of Kate Greenaway.
For more biographical information see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 2 & 3 also.
1882 April Baby’s Book of Tunes by Mary Russell:
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Frontispiece
Watched them go off with their Skates |
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"Don’t push so, you awful June"
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| Little Polly Flinders |
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| But Flinders’ Foots was cold |
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| The Strains of ‘Polly Flinders’ |
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| Mary, Mary, quite contrary |
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| Little Miss Muffet |
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| Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top |
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| The Tea Party |
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| Jack and Jill went up the hill |
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| Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been? |
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| Curly Locks, Curly Locks, wilt thou be mine? |
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| Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye |
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| Where are you going to, my pretty maid? |
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| ‘Nobody asked you, Sir,’ she said |
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| Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, |
1883 Almanack:
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| Frontispiece: New Year. |
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| Winter |
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| Days 28 in second month appear, |
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| I journey on, and ever bear with me |
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| January. |
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| February. |
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| April. |
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| May. |
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| June. |
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| Calendar for 1884 |
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| Calendar for 1884 |
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January
Aquarius The Water-Bearer. |
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February
Pisces The Fishes. |
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March
Aries The Ram. |
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| April Taurus The Bull. |
(May not found)
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| June Cancer The Crab. |
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| July Leo The Lion. |
(August not found)
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| September Libra The Balance. |
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| October Scorpio The Scorpion. |
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| November Sagittarius The Archer. |
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| December Capricornus The Goat. |
