Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes (1883-18 July 1963) was a British artist known as a painter, illustrator and

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artist. She designed posters and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books.

Biography

Burroughes was born and lived most of her life in London, although in her later years she lived near

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. She studied at the

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and at Heatherley's in London before furthering her studies in Germany. Burroughes produced illustrations for a number of magazines including ''Bystander'', ''Sketch'' and the ''

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''. She produced posters for the

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, including the poster ''For the Zoo'' in the style of a Japanese colour woodcut. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s she wrote and illustrated a series of children's books, often on animal themes. Animals were also a recurring theme in the prints she produced as were cloud formations. Her prints often featured towering banks of cumulus clouds above an English landscape. Burroughes also illustrated books by other writers, notably ''The Story of the Red Deer'' which was published bu the

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in 1936 and for which she produced eleven colour prints. Throughout the 1920s Burroughes lived with her partner Vere Hutchinson, an author who had five books published but died in 1931 after a protracted illness. Burroughes was elected a member of the

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in 1923 and became a member of the

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in 1925. She exhibited with the

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in London and both the

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and the

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hold examples of her work.

Books illustrated

Books illustrated by Burroughes include, * ''Queer Beasts at the Zoo'' by G Davidson,

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, 1927 * ''Queer Birds at the Zoo'' by G Davidson, Allen & Unwin, 1927 *''Gun Fodder'' by J. F. Snook, Allen & Unwin, 1930 * ''The Animal Lovers' Calendar'', by Jenkins, 1930 * ''Fifty-One New Nursery Rhymes'' by

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, Methuen, 1931 * ''Tinkle the Cat'' by NC James, Dent, 1932 * ''Gardener's Frenzy'' by M Pallister, Methuen, 1933 * ''The Story of the Red-Deer'' by JW Fortescue,

, 1936

Books written and illustrated

Books written and illustrated by Burroughes include, * ''The Amazing Adventures of Little Brown Bear'', Methuen, 1930 * ''Jack Rabbit, Detective'', Methuen, 1931 * ''Journeyings of Selina Squirrel and her Friends'', Methuen, 1931 * ''The Odd Little Girl'', Methuen, 1932 * ''Captain Seal's Treasure Hunt'',

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, 1933 * ''More Adventures of the Odd Little Girl'', Bodley Head, 1933 * ''Harris the Hare and His Own True Love'', Bodley Head, 1933 * ''The Strange Adventures of Mary Jane Stubbs'', Bodley Head, 1933 * ''The Home the Moles Built'', Hutchinson, 1939 * ''The Little Black Rabbit'', Hutchinson, 1940 * ''Teddy, the Little Refuge Mouse'', Hutchinson, 1942 * ''The Pigs who Sailed Away'', Hutchinson, 1944 * ''The Magic Herb'', Hutchinson, 1945 * ''The Conceited Frog'', Hutchinson, 1949 * ''The Little White Elephant'', Hutchinson, 1953

References

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