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Mary Elizabeth Turner (née Powell; 1854–1907) was an English embroiderer who exhibited her work at the 1890 exposition of the
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, for which she wrote an essay on modern embroidery. Identified with the
Arts and Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...
, she was a founder with May Morris of the Women’s Guild of Arts. Her father was Thomas Wilde Powell, a solicitor and stockbroker who was also a patron of architects and artists. One of her siblings was the artist, copyist and art patron
Christiana Herringham Christiana Jane Herringham, Lady Herringham (née Powell; 1852–1929) was a British artist, copyist, and art patron. She is noted for her part in establishing the National Art Collections Fund in 1903 to help preserve Britain's artistic heritag ...
. Her husband was the architect Hugh Thackeray Turner. One of her children, her daughter Christiana Ruth Turner, was the wife of climber
George Mallory George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English Mountaineering, mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and climbing partner An ...
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*''Arts and Crafts Essays'' by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society; with a new introduction by Peter Faulkner; Thoemmes Press (1996), . *''Victorian Embroidery: An Authoritative Guide'' by Barbara Morris; Thomas Nelson and Sons (1962). *''Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary'' by Alexander Stuart Gray; Gerald Duckworth & Co. (1985), . Arts and Crafts movement artists Embroidery designers 1854 births 1907 deaths British embroiderers {{UK-artist-stub