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Margaret Potter

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Illustrator Margaret Potter studied at the Ealing School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic. She gained considerable skills in draughtsmanship, and later gained experience in lithography and animal portrait painting. She ran a hostel for Irish agricultural workers during the second world war, and during this time created 'A History of the Countryside' with her husband. Their most influential work was 'Everything is Possible,' published in 1984.

Illustrators, Potter, Margaret

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Monica Edwards

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Writer Monica Edwards had a great love of the countryside and a strong sense of fun. Her first book, 'Wish for a Pony,' published in 1947, was written for her daughter. The characters in this book were to appear in a further 14 books. She mainly focused on the harsh details of ordinary farming life, rather than on an unreal world. After her children grew up, she turned to a different style, and wrote five autobiographical novels.

Edwards, Monica

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Tove Jansson

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Writer and illustrator Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1914. She left school at 15 to study painting in Sweden, and gradually developed her trademark Moomintroll figures.

Sweden, Women artists, Jansson, Tove Marika

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