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She was educated in private schools during the employment of her father at the College of Arms.
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Amelia Howard-Gibbon
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In 1966, her most comprehensive work, An Illustrated Comic Alphabet, was published by librarians and artists who admired her work. Five years later, the Canadian Library Association inaugurated an annual award named for her, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator"s Award. lieutenant recognizes the year"s best illustration by a Canadian illustrator of a children"s book published in Canada.
Born at Littlehampton, Sussex, England, she was the oldest daughter of Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, himself the illegitimate son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and Amelia Dendy.
From her earliest years, Howard-Gibbon enjoyed drawing freehanded sketches, some of which survive today. She is believed to have studied French, German, and Art while in Paris, France, and Stuttgart, Germany.
She was the first of the Howard-Gibbon siblings to emigrate to Ontario, where she began teaching in Saint Thomas. She later moved to Sarnia and continued to teach children there for many years.
She died in Lambeth and was buried with her father at Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Arundel.
Many years later Poussette"s family donated the book to the Toronto Children"s Library. (The original is in the Osborne Collection of Early Children"s Books, catalogued as a book, "25 leaves", under 24 "ART" call numbers whose last words are letters of the alphabet, A to Z except I and U) lieutenant was finally published in 1966 as An Illustrated Comic Alphabet by Oxford University Press in Toronto (catalogued as a 31-page book) and Henry Z. Walck in New New York lieutenant is the oldest known children"s picture book by a Canadian artist.
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