Mildred Emra (married name Mildred Weston; 14 March 1874[1] - 17 February 1948[2])[3] was an English artist[4] and illustrator of children's books.[5]
Life edit
Mildred Emra was born Mildred Alice Mary Emra in Great Blakenham, Suffolk,[3] the daughter of William Henry Atkinson and Anna Louisa Emra (née Dibbin).[6] She married Frederic Weston in Richmond on 8 June 1907.[3]
Emra illustrated a number of books for children, including multiple for Curwen Press.[7] Among these were May-Time Action Songs and Toddlekin's Action Songs by Laura Ormiston Chant,[7] and Edith Swepstone
Bibliography edit
As author:
- 'The Ladye of the Snow' in Child Life (1891)[8]
- 'Time and the Maidens' in the Girl's Own Paper (1897)
- 'Et in Arcadia, Ego' in the Girl's Own Paper (1897)[9]
As illustrator:
- R.L. Stevenson's songs for children by Edith Swepstone (1897)
- The thistledown and other action songs for children by Laura Ormiston Chant (1907)
- Kindergarten gift plays by Margaret E Nuth (1900)
- May-time action songs : a collection of action songs for children by Laura Ormiston Chant (1901)
- Ivy leaves by Maud Donaldson (1900)
References edit
- ^ "Suffolk Baptism Index 1538-1911". Find My Past.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Government Probate". Find My Past. 1948.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Mildred Alice Mary (Emra) Weston (1874-1948) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree". www.wikitree.com. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ "Mrs M.A.W. Weston". Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser. 27 February 1948.
- ^ "Emra, Mildred". WorldCat Identities.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Anne Bamford Dibbin: St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford". www.stsepulchres.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ a b Porter, Grace Cleveland; Loomis, Harvey Worthington (1914). Negro folk singing games and folk games of the habitants;. New York Public Library. London : J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd.
- ^ Fröbel, Friedrich; Froebel Society; Froebel Society and Junior Schools Association (1891). Child life. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. London : George Philip & Son.
- ^ "Et in Arcadia, Ego" (PDF). Victorian Voices. 1897.
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