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| | Digital library of illuminated books online – Kate Greenaway's Children Books. |
 | | GREENAWAY, KATE (1846-1901), English artist and book illustrator, was the daughter of John Greenaway, a well-known draughtsman and engraver on wood, and was born in London on the I7th of March 1846. |
 | | Her subjects were, in the main, young girls, children, flowers, and landscape; and the air of artless simplicity, freshness, humor, and purity of these little works so appealed to public and artists alike that the enthusiastic welcome habitually accorded to them is to be attributed to something more than love of novelty. |
 | | A leading feature in Miss Greenaways work was her revival of the delightfully quaint costume of the beginning of the 19th century; this lent humor to her fancy, and so captivated the public taste that it has been said, with poetic exaggeration, that Kate Greenaway dressed the children of two continents. |
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