Education
Rowlett graduated from Woman"s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, or UNCG) in 1925, received her master"s degree from Columbia University, and became an elementary school teacher in Scarsdale, New New York
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Margaret Rowlett
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"Cricket," a young girl who appears in Rowlett"s books and fabric designs, was based partially on Rowlett"s childhood ("Cricket" was a nickname given Rowlett by an uncle). She had no formal art training save one six-week course she took while a teacher. She began to paint with her students, and when she took her illustrations to Vogue, Harper"s Bazaar, and the Lord and Taylor"s department store, they were received enthusiastically.
In 1944 Lord and Taylor commissioned Rowlett to design children's draperies and bedspreads and to paint murals in their toy shop and milk Barometer
Several of her fabric designs were exhibited at the International Textile Exhibition at UNCG in 1945 and at the Modern Museum of Art and Design Exhibition in 1946. Rowlett published two books for children, Doctorate is for Daddy (New York: Knopf, 1947) and When Cricket was Little (New York: Aladdin Books, 1948).
In addition, she wrote a number of unpublished short stories and poems featuring the character of Cricket. Articles about Rowlett and her work appeared in House Beautiful (January, 1947) and McCall"s (October, 1948).
