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(birth name:
Horder, Margaret L'Anson
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(a.k.a.
Horder, Margaret l'Anson
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Born: 1903 Sydney, New South Wales
Died: 1978
Gender: Female
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Children's book illustrator Margaret Horder 'set new standards' in Australian book illustration. She trained at the Sydney Art School before working in London in the 1930s and 1940s where she began illustrating children's books for Oxford University Press. The first Australian book she illustrated was Nan Chauncy's They Found a Cave. Margaret Horder and her husband Arthur Freeman returned to Sydney in 1950. Horder continued her career in Australia illustrating books by many important Australian ....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
Last amended:
24 Apr 2009