The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

August 22, 2014

August 22, 1874

Our subject today, Helen Allingham (September 26, 1848 to September 28, 1926) was a painter in watercolor, and her husband, William Allingham, was an Irish poet. They maried on August 22, 1874. It sounds like a marriage made in a novelistic heaven, and so it seems to have been on earth. They had three sons. Helen illustrated her husband's book for children. And through it all, she kept painting. After the war ended, and her art came to be judged sentimental, and Victorian, she kept painting. Scenes like this:





She just kept painting until hours before her sudden death.

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