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Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon.
English Canadian artist and teacher, active in Ontario c. 1860
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About Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon was an English teacher and artist known for her talents during the 1860s in Ontario, Canada. 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. It recognizes the year's best illustration by a Canadian illustrator of a children's book published in Canada.
Everything about Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon →- Occupation
- painter, writer, teacher, children's writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 24, 1826
- Died
- February 16, 1874