Jennie Harbour (26 July 1893 – November 1959) was an English

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artist and illustrator.

Early life

Jennie Harbour was born in

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in the

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in 1893. Her father and mother, Charles and Sarah Harbour, were milliners, furriers, and dressmakers and had both been born in

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. Their four children, Rose, Jennie, Lily, and Arnold, were all born in London. In 1911, the family was living in

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, and had two servants. Jennie, then aged 17, was still at school. Harbour studied music with Miss Fanny Goldhill at the Bechstein Hall Studios,

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, and in examinations in 1913 gained distinctions in harmony and grammar of music.

Career

By 1919, Harbour was working for

Raphael Tuck & Sons Raphael Tuck & Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London in October 1866, selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, which was their most successful line. Their busi ...

, a publisher which produced postcards, calendars, and books. At first, she created illustrations like 18th-century paintings of gardens and flowers for calendars. International orders came into the company for her "delightfully distinctive, bright and pleasant" cards in 1919. Her prints were very successful, and Raphael Tuck made an arrangement with Reinthal & Newman of New York to hand-print the works for the United States market. In 1921, Harbour illustrated for Raphael Tuck ''My Favourite Book of Fairy Tales'', which had twelve colour illustrations and others in black and white. She also illustrated ''My Book of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes'' and

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's stories. She created the illustrations ''Call of Spring'' and ''When Autumn Winds Do Blow'' for Raphael Tuck in 1921. In 1927, she illustrated ''

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'' of the Newbery classics series, which was edited by

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and published by David McKay Company. The book that was reissued in 1934 included 48 stories, including tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Native Americans and folklore from France, Germany, Poland and other countries. The '' Green Fairy Book'', published in 1934, also included stories from a number of countries. The Story of the Three Bears, Thee Fisherman and his Wife, and The Snuff-Box were a few of the stories. Its authors included

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and

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. At the time of the

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, Harbour was living with her mother, Sarah Harbour, at 93, Belsize Lane,

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, and her date of birth was registered as 26 July 1893. Harbour died at 184 Kings Court,

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, in November 1959. Her funeral was at the

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. Her remains were cremated and the ashes buried at the Hoop Lane Cemetery,

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."Harbour, Jennie", in ''British Jews, Register of Burials'', no. 2364, 29 November 1959, West London Synagogue, Hoop Lane Cemetery Burial Plot Row A/C No 46B; "HARBOUR Jennie / 65 / Southwark / 5d 496" in ''General Register of Deaths (England and Wales)'', October/December quarter, 1959

Gallery

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References

External links

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JENNIE HARBOUR, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
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''Mary Had a Little Lamb''
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