Some of the posts on here have been a long time in the making. Today’s is one such. When I was researching a post about garden writer Mrs Earle way back in 2015 I discovered that a piece she written had been illustrated by an artist named Margaret Waterfield. I liked the paintings and thought she might make another good subject.I then discovered that there was very little known about and after a quick browse of my bookshelves and several google searches I gave up until this summer when I decided to give it another more serious go.
Most of Margaret ‘s work seems to have been done in the late 19th and early 20thc and then she faded from public view long before her death in 1953. Although there was a brief outburst of interest in her and her work in the late 1980s which led to two short articles, I’m still unable to put together anything like a full biography but when you see the range and quality of her work I hope you’ll agree that she deserves renewed attention and further research.
You might also think that an onion is an onion is an onion, although you’d probably recognise there are ones with brown papery skins, others with red and some with yellow or white. And when you start to start to think about you’ll probably recall that the insides also vary in colour, and shape and that maybe the taste and strength can vary too.
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