Contents

CHAPTER I

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Introductory 1

CHAPTER II

Early Years: Birth—Autobiography of Childhood—First Visit to Rolleston—Love of Flowers—Family Trouble—Evening Parties and Entertainments 8

CHAPTER III

Childhood in Rolleston: Early Reading—Adventures in London Streets—A Community of Dolls—Buckingham Palace—Life in Rolleston—Education—Brother and Father 21

CHAPTER IV

Student Days and Early Success: Early Promise and Art Classes—South Kensington Prizes—Lady Butler—Dudley Gallery—Rev. W. J. Loftie and Messrs. Marcus Ward—Amateur Theatricals—Toy-Books and Fairy Tales—Progress 41

CHAPTER V

1877-1878

The Triumph of Under the Window: Royal Academy—Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Evans—Mr. Evans’s Colour-printing—John Ruskin on Kate Greenaway—Topo—Randolph Caldecott, and Mr. Walter Crane 55

CHAPTER VI

1879-1880

Christmas Cards and Books—H. Stacy Marks, R.A., John Ruskin, and Frederick Locker-Lampson 73

CHAPTER VII

1881-1882

The Empress Frederick, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, Ruskin, and Mr. Punch—A Day in a Child’s Life—Little Ann and Mother Goose 98

CHAPTER VIII

1882 (continued) and 1883

The Ruskin and Severn Friendship ripens—At Brantwood—The Art of England—Ruskin’s Advice—Kate Greenaway’s First Almanack—A Greenaway ‘Boom’—Mr. Austin Dobson 109

CHAPTER IX

1884-1885

Language of Flowers—Mavor’s Spelling-Book—Dame Wiggins of Lee—Ruskin Correspondence—His Tuition and Plans for Co-operation—Intimacy with Mrs. Severn and her Children 127

CHAPTER X

1885 and 1886

The Move to Frognal—Ruskin: Letters and Confidences, Praise and Blame, his Illness—Mrs. Allingham 142

CHAPTER XI

1887-1890

Kate Greenaway as a Correspondent—Her Letters to Ruskin—Her Friends—Learning Perspective—Ruskin’s Last Letters—The Pied Piper of Hamelin—Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S.—The Book of Games—Elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours—Paris Exhibition—Death of Mr. John Greenaway, Sr. 163

CHAPTER XII

1891-1895

Kate Greenaway’s First Exhibition—The Hon. Gerald Ponsonby—Almanacks—Contributions to the Columbian Exposition, Chicago—Book-plates—Lady Maria Ponsonby—Works Sold—The Ladies’ Home Journal—Death of Mrs. Greenaway—Lady Mayo—Brantwood again—Kate Greenaway’s Criticism of Modern Art—Marie Bashkirtseff—Friendship with Miss Violet Dickinson—Religious Opinions—Ruskin—Views on Mr. George Meredith, etc. 179

CHAPTER XIII

1896-1897

The Last of the Almanacks—Opinions on Books, Pictures, the New Woman, and Eternal Man—Her Defence of Ruskin 201

CHAPTER XIV

1898-1901

Kate Greenaway’s Third Exhibition—Correspondence with John Ruskin, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Samuel—Her Views on Art, Religion, and Books—Her Oil-painting—Death of Ruskin—Illness and Death of Kate Greenaway—Posthumous Exhibition—The Kate Greenaway Memorial 224

CHAPTER XV

Verse-writing: Kate Greenaway’s Feeling for Poetry—Problem, Tragedy, and Resignation—Charm of her Verses for Children—On Death 257

CHAPTER XVI

The Artist: A Review and an Estimate 265

List of Books, etc., illustrated wholly or in part by Kate Greenaway 285

Index. 291