Mary Ellen Edwards

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Mary Ellen Edwards ("M. E. E.", 9 November 1838 – 22 December 1934) was an English artist who contributed to many Victorian newspapers and journals, as well being a prolific illustrator of children's books.

The daughter of Mary Johnson and Downes Edwards, a farmer and engineer who had a number of successful inventions, she was born on her father’s farm in Surbiton.

She spent her early years with her family in Surbiton, the Isle of Man, South Kensington, and Chelsea. She married, on 13 June 1866, John Freer. They had one son, born in 1867, but John Freer died in 1869. At this time and over the following decade Mary Ellen was submitting her work to the annual Royal Academy shows. In 1872 she married the artist John Charles Staples, with whom she worked on many projects until his death at the end of the century.^[1]

References

↑ Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. 2012. p. 364. ISBN 9780199923052.

External links

"Women Painters and Illustrators". Retrieved 30 December 2013.

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