| CHAPTER I |
| PAGE |
| Introductory | 1 |
| CHAPTER II |
| Early Years: Birth—Autobiography of Childhood—First Visit to Rolleston—Love of Flowers—Family Trouble—Evening Parties and Entertainments | 8 |
| CHAPTER III |
| Childhood in Rolleston: Early Reading—Adventures in London Streets—A Community of Dolls—Buckingham Palace—Life in Rolleston—Education—Brother and Father | 21 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Student Days and Early Success: Early Promise and Art Classes—South Kensington Prizes—Lady Butler—Dudley Gallery—Rev. W. J. Loftie and Messrs. Marcus Ward—Amateur Theatricals—Toy-Books and Fairy Tales—Progress | 41 |
| CHAPTER V |
| 1877-1878 |
| The Triumph of Under the Window: Royal Academy—Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Evans—Mr. Evans’s Colour-printing—John Ruskin on Kate Greenaway—Topo—Randolph Caldecott, and Mr. Walter Crane | 55 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| 1879-1880 |
| Christmas Cards and Books—H. Stacy Marks, R.A., John Ruskin, and Frederick Locker-Lampson | 73 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| 1881-1882 |
| The Empress Frederick, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, Ruskin, and Mr. Punch—A Day in a Child’s Life—Little Ann and Mother Goose | 98 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| 1882 (continued) and 1883 |
| The Ruskin and Severn Friendship ripens—At Brantwood—The Art of England—Ruskin’s Advice—Kate Greenaway’s First Almanack—A Greenaway ‘Boom’—Mr. Austin Dobson | 109 |
| CHAPTER IX |
| 1884-1885 |
| Language of Flowers—Mavor’s Spelling-Book—Dame Wiggins of Lee—Ruskin Correspondence—His Tuition and Plans for Co-operation—Intimacy with Mrs. Severn and her Children | 127 |
| CHAPTER X |
| 1885 and 1886 |
| The Move to Frognal—Ruskin: Letters and Confidences, Praise and Blame, his Illness—Mrs. Allingham | 142 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| 1887-1890 |
| Kate Greenaway as a Correspondent—Her Letters to Ruskin—Her Friends—Learning Perspective—Ruskin’s Last Letters—The Pied Piper of Hamelin—Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S.—The Book of Games—Elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours—Paris Exhibition—Death of Mr. John Greenaway, Sr. | 163 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| 1891-1895 |
| Kate Greenaway’s First Exhibition—The Hon. Gerald Ponsonby—Almanacks—Contributions to the Columbian Exposition, Chicago—Book-plates—Lady Maria Ponsonby—Works Sold—The Ladies’ Home Journal—Death of Mrs. Greenaway—Lady Mayo—Brantwood again—Kate Greenaway’s Criticism of Modern Art—Marie Bashkirtseff—Friendship with Miss Violet Dickinson—Religious Opinions—Ruskin—Views on Mr. George Meredith, etc. | 179 |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| 1896-1897 |
| The Last of the Almanacks—Opinions on Books, Pictures, the New Woman, and Eternal Man—Her Defence of Ruskin | 201 |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| 1898-1901 |
| Kate Greenaway’s Third Exhibition—Correspondence with John Ruskin, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Samuel—Her Views on Art, Religion, and Books—Her Oil-painting—Death of Ruskin—Illness and Death of Kate Greenaway—Posthumous Exhibition—The Kate Greenaway Memorial | 224 |
| CHAPTER XV |
| Verse-writing: Kate Greenaway’s Feeling for Poetry—Problem, Tragedy, and Resignation—Charm of her Verses for Children—On Death | 257 |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| The Artist: A Review and an Estimate | 265 |
|
List of Books, etc., illustrated wholly or in part by Kate
Greenaway | 285 |
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| Index. | 291 |
