Marjorie Howden
, 1911 - 1988
Illustrator, Marjorie Howden, was born in 1911 in Melbourne, Victoria.
The Nine Muses: Five Plays for Ages 11 to 13 by Joan Epstein includes one illustration by Howden, a black ink drawing of The Nine Muses, holding their props, centred around Apollo. Howden’s work is associated with the contemporary approach to learning in the 1950s which embraced full colour illustrations in class readers for first and second grade children, such as the John and Betty early readers. Typically, works for older readers such as The Nine Muses were more sparsely illustrated, often in black ink drawings.
Bio prepared by Margaret Bromley, University of New England, mbromle5@une.edu.au, brom_ken@bigpond.net.au
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