Randolph Caldecott

Standard Name: Caldecott, Randolph

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
She had met Caldecott in June 1879, when she already warmly admired his illustrations for works by Washington Irving . She specifically asked him for a picture of a fair-haired boy riding a red-haired pony...
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
Daddy Darwin's Dovecot had begun appearing in Aunt Judy's Magazine just after its change of publisher and design in November 1881. The story, which involves birds of all kinds, was especially suited to Caldecott ...
Publishing Charlotte Riddell
This annual was illustrated by Randolph Caldecott (whose sombre drawing of the autumnal, dusky Essex marshes was much admired by S. M. Ellis ).
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
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Fairy Water was re-issued as an independent work in 1878...
Publishing E. Owens Blackburne
She is said to have written the first of the four Droll Stories (entitled Philosopher Push) some years before publication. The others are presumed to be recent. A Sure Shot, one of the...
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
In the year before her death JHE published in volume form Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, with seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott (reproduced, some of them using new technology, by engraver Edmund Evans ).
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries, 2006.
93
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
A shilling edition put out in London and New York (in London by the SPCK ) has four full-page and fifteen small monochrome illustrations by Randolph Caldecott , its beige cover, on boards, bearing pictures...
Reception Kate Greenaway
KG 's illustrations were more remarkable and successful than her writing, though her literary ambitions are worth noting. She developed a distinctive and widely recognizable visual style which had widespread impact. What Kate Greenaway did...
Textual Production Juliana Horatia Ewing
JHE published through the SPCK her children's story Jackanapes, with seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott .
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
21: 171
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries, 2006.
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Timeline

November 1881: Aunt Judy's Magazine, the leading fiction...

Writing climate item

November 1881

Aunt Judy's Magazine, the leading fiction periodical for children founded by Margaret Gatty , changed publishers, and adopted a new format with a cover designed by Randolph Caldecott .
Gatty, Horatia K. F. Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
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Texts

Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Randolph Caldecott. Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.
Riddell, Charlotte et al. “Fairy Water: A Christmas Story”. Routledge’s Christmas Annual, Routledge, 1873.
Blackburne, E. Owens et al. Irish Stories, Humorous and Tragic. J. Hogg, 1880.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Randolph Caldecott. Jackanapes. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young, 1883.