Honor C. Appleton
{{Short description|British illustrator of children's books}}
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File:Where there's a will.jpgHonor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pookpress.co.uk/shop/the-childrens-alice-honor-appleton/|title=The Children's Alice - Illustrated by Honor Appleton}} She had a delicate watercolour style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110403120433/http://www.booksillustrated.com/en-UK/honor-appleton Honor Appleton] at Books Illustrated – archive date 3 April 2011
Biography
She was born in Brighton, on the south coast of England, on 4 February 1879,{{Cite web |editor-last=Bury |editor-first=Stephen |title=Appleton, Honor Charlotte |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199923052.001.0001/acref-9780199923052-e-88 |url-access=subscription |website=Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators |publisher=Oxford University Press}} and lived in nearby Hove most of her life. She studied art at the Kensington School, Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Works
Appleton illustrated more than 150 books in the course of her career. They included the fairytales of Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and a retold version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Children's Alice.
Her watercolours were exhibited at the Royal Academy, and there was a memorial exhibition of her work at Hove Library in 1952.
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External links
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- [http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/appleton/index.html Honor Appleton at the Victorian Web]
- [http://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/honor-appleton-biography/ Honor Appleton at Pook Press]
- [http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview?bookid=appbadm_00150012&route=simple_0_0_Honor%20Appleton_English_0&lang=English&msg=&ilang=English The picture book The Bad Mrs. Ginger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226134149/http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview?bookid=appbadm_00150012&route=simple_0_0_Honor%20Appleton_English_0&lang=English&msg=&ilang=English |date=26 February 2017 }}, 1902, written and illustrated by Honor C. Appleton, at the International Children's Digital Library
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Category:British women children's book illustrators
Category:British children's book illustrators
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