I don't know, but I found this nativity scene she did, which looked a bit like a woodblock print. So her first thing she did was a Christmas card design in 1939.
Her last book was published in 1978 and she died in 1988. She did a few more books, becoming popular enough to have done a book signing in 1974. It is unclear if she was using this name as a thin pseudonym, or if it's just that she didn't take her husband's name some years later.Ĭirca 1950 she started to write and illustrate secular material, still squarely for small children ( Teddy Robinson), but over the years spiraled outwards in scope of subject matter books for somewhat older children came circa 1960 ( Mary-Mary) and then Marnie came in 1967. Richard Robinson was apparently an author too, but cba to find any info about him.Ĭuriously she continued to publish these booklets under her maiden name Joan Gale Thomas despite being married at the time. She did these books with her husband, who did the principal outline drawings, while Joan did the writing and put expressions on the faces. There she continued with birthday cards, and then eventuallyīooks-or rather, booklets, aimed at small children for Christian To her surprise, they liked it and had it To Mowbrays, a publisher that specialise in Christian art and literature (whoĪre still operational by the way). Robinson began producing published works in 1939, when she was about 29-years-old, and before she married to Richard Gavin Robinson in 1941. Her relationship with her mother is fascinating so much so that I won't spoilĪll the details now, for they must be left to my discussion of Marnie. Her-a fact that is much recounted in the few, scant, accounts of her life Seven schools and did not pass any exams, because schoolwork was meaningless to To books, indulging in stories of children who had cool lives. Indeed, she and herįamily lived down a close no one came through, so staring out the windowĭidn't even yield the pleasure of watching life passing by. Robinson resented her sterile, boring life in the suburbs. Planned community initially founded by Quakers before being developed into a Hampstead Garden Suburb, then Letchworth Garden City-a once teetotal,
Settling somewhere peaceful and quiet: born in Gerrads Cross, then raised in In Hampstead, where she was born, so she was determined to keep her family safe by Her mother in particular had childhood memories of druken street brawls Protestants who lived in the late Victorian times, who grew up circa 1880 She looked kind :>īorn 10 February 1910 as Joan Gale Thomas in Buckinghamshire. Not only did I visit all of Robinson's works, I also got to visit her. Robinson: When Marnie Was There and beyond Robinson: When Marnie Was There and beyond Joan G.
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