I’m sorry, but there will be no Sunday News today. I do hope you’ll enjoy these delightful colored pictures!
Hugh Thomson, whose illustrations to the 1903 edition of Frances Burney’s Evelina formed the basis of a recent post, was a prolific and popular illustrator. He produced drawings for some editions of Shakespeare, did illustrations for all of Jane Austen’s novels and also drew pictures to accompany editions of poetry and plays.
I was at pains last time to demonstrate Burney’s local connection in order to justify a post about Thomson’s work. So again I have to point out the local connection of his collaborator, Kensington resident J M Barrie, who had a couple of addresses in Kensington including 133 Gloucester Road, a house I walk past every day, up till now not realising who had lived there.
Before the success of Barrie’s Peter Pan play he enjoyed another stage sensation in London and New York with a play called Quality Street. And yes, they did name the famous tins of chocolates…
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Thanks for flagging this up Ella. I loved the illustrations, but I’m also a big fan of JMB’s work and, in fact, wrote a play about him for Stirling theatre company, Theatre Broad, Another shivery coincidence is that the last time I acted on stage was as a schoolgirl in Quality Street. I played Susan, of course, never got the love interest! Anne Stenhouse
How fun, Anne!