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Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) ( London, March 17 , 1846 - November 6 , 1901 ) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, ''Under The Window'' (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution , was a best-seller.

The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the UK Chartered Institute Of Library And Information Professionals to an illustrator of children's books.

New techniques of s and Skeleton Suit s for boys, high-waisted pinafores and dresses with Mobcaps And Straw Bonnet s for girls. The influence of children's clothes in portraits by British painter John Hoppner (1758-1810) may have provided her some inspiration. Liberty's Of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. A full generation of mothers in the liberal-minded 'artistic' British circles that called themselves " The Souls " and embraced the Arts And Crafts Movement dressed their daughters in Kate Greenaway pantaloons and bonnets in the 1880s and 90s.

She lived in an arts and crafts house she commissioned from Richard Norman Shaw in Frognal , London .


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Ina Taylor, ''The Art of Kate Greenaway: A Nostalgic Portrait of Childhood London'', 1991 ISBN 088289867