Kate Greenaway
(England), 1846-1901
Born in London, England, to a father who was an engraver. At the age of 12 she enrolled in the National Course of Art Training and went on to study in the Female School of Art in South Kensington and at the Slade School of Fine Art, after which she began illustrating greeting cards. In 1877, Edmund Evans, a woodblock engraver and printer, taking a remarkable chance with some of Greenway’s drawings and the verses she had composed to accompany them, published her first book, Under the Window, which became a best-seller that established her reputation in England and internationally. She would go on to publish many books, including Mother Goose (1881) and Marigold Garden (1885), among others, all of which were engraved by Evans. In commemoration of her great achievements, the British Library Association named its prize in recognition of “distinguished illustration in a book for children” the Kate Greenaway Medal.
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