Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers
Catherine (Kate) Greenaway was an English writer and children's book illustrator. She studied in what is now the Royal College of Art in London. Her first book, published in 1879, was a collection of simple verses about children called Under the Window. Her paintings were reproduced by hand engraved wooden blocks.
The little boys and girls that she painted were dressed in her version of fashion for the time period and Liberty of London actually adapted her paintings for children's clothes and a generation of British mothers dressed their children in Kate Greenaway's bonnets and pantaloons.
She died of breast cancer at the age 55 in 1901. The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in her honor in 1955 and is awarded every year in the UK to an illustrator of children's books.
I present to you pages from Language of Flowers - a charming illustrated book of flower equivalents
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Aren't they wonderful? Kate Greenaway books are very collectible too so keep your eyes open for them.
Enjoy!
