Kate greenaway biography

Kate Greenaway, otherwise known as Catherine Greenaway, was born in Hoxton, London, England, on 17th March,

She is world-renowned as one of the best &#;Golden Age Illustrators&#;, and brought a new lease of life to turn-of-the-century children&#;s illustration.

Greenaway spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by Richard Burchett. Her first book, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children (), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a best-seller.

In the late s, Greenaway – who had heretofore been illustrating greeting cards –persuaded her father, who was also in the engraving business, to show Edmund Evans her manuscript, Under the Window. Evans stated:

I was at once fascinated by the originality of the drawings and the ideas of the verse, so I at once purchased them.

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The life of Kate Greenaway ()

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23rd September, in Biography & Memoir, History, Women in History

By Helen Murray

Once a household name around the globe, the artist and author Kate Greenaway has long since slipped into relative obscurity.

Famous for her quaint drawings of mittened and bonneted girls, Kate depicted a rose-tinted view of childhood in days gone by, capturing nostalgic innocence and play in her distinctive and charming scenes.

Born in Hoxton, London in , Kate was the second child of four born to John Greenaway and his wife Elizabeth. It was a creative household. John Greenaway was a talented engraver, but early successes were marred by a disastrous turn of fortune when a large project failed to pay. Forced to take small commissions, the family struggled to make ends meet until the enterprising and industrious, Elizabeth took to millinery to support her husband and family.

Kate’s formative years were spent between the urban sprawl of suburba

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Kate Greenaway

Biography

Kate Greenaway was born in Hoxton, London on March 17, to John and Elizabeth Greenaway, a woodblock printer and seamstress who were determined to give their offspring better childhoods than they had. Though both parents worked hard to provide for their children, the Greenaway family did fall on hard times, which forced them to move from place to place while Kate was young. Many people characterized Kate as an “odd” child, who differed from her siblings in that she spent a great deal of time using her imagination, to escape the stresses of her childhood. Kate is frequently quoted as saying, “I had such a very happy time when inom was a child, and curiously, was so very much happier than my brother and sister, with exactly the same surroundings. I suppose my imaginary life made me one long continuous joy—filled everything with a strange wonder and beauty.”[1]

An “imaginary life” helped Kate block out the negativ a