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The Tales the Letters Tell: Book 2
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1928
About the author
Margaret Tarrant
113 books5 followersMargaret Winifred Tarrant was the only child of Percy and Sarah Tarrant and she excelled at art from an early age.
She was so talented that at the age of 19 she received her first commission from JM Dent & Sons who used her illustrations for a new edition of Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies'.
This work earned her a string of other commissions such as 'Nursery Rhymes (1914 and 1923), 'Alice in Wonderland' (1916) and 'Hans Andersen's Fairy tales' (1917) for Ward, Lock and Co. She also designed postcards for Oxford University Press.
In addition she illustrated more than 20 books for George G. Harrap & Co between 1915 and 1929 and she began an even more important publishing relationship in 1920, the year in which she produced her first illustrations for The Medici Society.
She covered a range of subjects but her most popular were her fairies with which she could express her love for children, wild flowers and dance.
She was very much a free spirit herself, apparently flying along the country lanes around her home in Surrey on an ancient bicycle. And, of course, she leapt off regularly to sketch a flower she had spotted or on occasions to help a child paint.
When she died in 1959 she left a lasting legacy in her charming pictures that are still popular today as they enchant new generations into a secret fairy world.
Gerry Wolstenholme
December 2021
She was so talented that at the age of 19 she received her first commission from JM Dent & Sons who used her illustrations for a new edition of Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies'.
This work earned her a string of other commissions such as 'Nursery Rhymes (1914 and 1923), 'Alice in Wonderland' (1916) and 'Hans Andersen's Fairy tales' (1917) for Ward, Lock and Co. She also designed postcards for Oxford University Press.
In addition she illustrated more than 20 books for George G. Harrap & Co between 1915 and 1929 and she began an even more important publishing relationship in 1920, the year in which she produced her first illustrations for The Medici Society.
She covered a range of subjects but her most popular were her fairies with which she could express her love for children, wild flowers and dance.
She was very much a free spirit herself, apparently flying along the country lanes around her home in Surrey on an ancient bicycle. And, of course, she leapt off regularly to sketch a flower she had spotted or on occasions to help a child paint.
When she died in 1959 she left a lasting legacy in her charming pictures that are still popular today as they enchant new generations into a secret fairy world.
Gerry Wolstenholme
December 2021
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