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Honor Appleton was born in Brighton, Sussex (1879). Her father was John Appleton, a cleric. Her mother was Georgina (née Wilkie). Honor was the third of four children. When she was only 12 years old, her father died. The family moved to London. Honor exhibited a facilty at a very young age. She entered the National Art Training School. And then earned a scholrship at at Frank Calderon’s School of Animal Painting. Shenext worked briefly in the studio of Sir Arthur Cope RA. Appleton enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools along with Alice, her older sister (1901). She onlyttended intermittently for some reason (1901-06). She participated in the social life of the schools. She took a paricular interest in sports. She hoined the Ladies Hockey Club and played for her home county--Sussex. While still studyng Appleton launched her career as an illustrator. The first subtntial work as illstrating The Bad Mrs Ginger byGrant Richards (1902). She develped her own distinctive style, influenced by Kate Greenaway, Annie French and Mabel Lucie Attwell. John Watson Nichol noticed her illustrations. She began to achieve professional recognition with Blake’s Songs of Innocence (Herbert and Daniel, 1910). At his time she took up residence at Hove, Sussex (1911). There she lived with her mother and Raschel, her older sister. From here she carried out her career. She rarely trveled and then only on business. She participated active in the local community. She joined the Sussex Women’s Art Club. EWhen Workd War I broke out, she worked as a nurse for the Civil Defence (1914). To keep up professionall with illutration trends, she subscribed to Percy Bradshaw’s correspondence course-- The Art of the Illustrator (1917). She hasleft a substatial body of work. She illustrated over 150 books. The most importasnt of her early illustrations were he ‘Josephine’ series, published by Blackie. She also illustrated books by Mrs Cradock. She gradually mved away on from from nursery themes (1930s-40s). A major effort was children’s versions of literary classics for George G Harrap. She passed at the Brooklands Nursing Home (1951). 【Horne】
Horne, Alan. Appleton, Honor Charlotte (1879-1951).
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