| Kate
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author & Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 17 Mar 1846
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Date of death - 1901 |
| Place of birth
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Catherine (Kate) Greenaway was born on March 17, 1846, at Cavendish Street in London to John Greenaway and Elizabeth Catherine Jones.
Her father being a well-known engraver and an architect, encouraged Kate's artistic talents in her early teens.
Kate was raised in a loving family environment and her unique illustration was born from her memories of her happy childhood. Her artwork, illustrations, watercolors and her poems, she had left behind over a hundred years ago gave us valuable information regarding children's life in Victorian time.
With no formal schooling, Kate was home schooled by local women who themselves had very little education. At age 12, Kate was given an education in art to develop her talent. By age 17 or 18, Kate had received several awards and left some remarkable artwork such as A Kitchen in Ralston, a watercolor, Picnic, a drawing by ink, and painted tiles, etc.
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Kate worked for the London branch of Marcus Ward and Co. from 1868 to 1878. In 1868, amazingly 25,000 of the first Valentine's Day card Kate illustrated were sold in a few weeks time.
In 1874, when she was 28, Kate illustrated a book called Fairy Gift, written by Katherine Knox. This was the first time her name appeared on the title page of a book she had illustrated. Kate always wanted to draw and write poems as she pleased and did not wish to do a work she didn't particularly like.
Kate's father was a friend of Edmund Evans, the color printer. When she showed her portfolio of drawings and poems to Evans, he immediately decided to publish them as a collection. In 1878, Kate published her first book, a picture book titled Under The Window. This book was an enormous and immediate success and made an epoch in children's books in the last third of the 19th Century. And her name became well known not only in England but in the rest of the Europe and to the United States.
Kate Greenaway died on November 6, 1901, surrounded by several of her friends at her bed side. She was 55 years old.
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Kate Greenaway
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