Margaret Wise Brown
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Serra, Junipero, 181
Seuss, Dr., see Geisel, Theodor
Shahn, Ben, 46
Shakespeare, William, 55, 133, 182
Shaw, Charles, 117–18, 138, 192, 209–10, 235; Black and White, 179; and death of MWB, 279, 281; his friendship with MWB, 254, 265, 273; The Giant of Central Park, 118, 140; The Important Book, 223–24, 225; It Looked Like Spilt Milk, 217; “Jumble Pie,” 118; Nightlife: Vanity Fair’s Intimate Guide to New York After Dark, 117; and The Only House, 166; and Michael Strange, 125,131,250
Shaw, Irwin, 73, 115, 116
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 205
Shoumatoff, Sophie, 72
Schuster, Max, 268
Simon and Schuster, 101, 194, 199, 246, 255; Little Golden Books of, 181, 185; MWB’s contract with, 267–69; Pocket Books of, 185–86, 198, 200
Simont, Marc, 217, 218
Sloan, John, 70
Slobodkina, Esphyr, 2, 94–96, 102, 117, 223, 279; Caps for Sale, 140; friendship between MWB and, 138–39; The Little Farmer, 96, 228–29; quarrel between MWB and, 136–38, 139
Slocum, Rosalie, 75
Smith and Haas, 124
Spanish Civil War, 71, 83
Sprague, Otho, 47, 48
Sprague, Mrs. Otho, 48
Sprague Warner and Company, 47
Stall, Dorothy, 62
Stanton, Jessie, 89, 169
Stanton, Judith, 281–82. See also Thorne, Judith
Stein, Gertrude, 39, 82, 86, 88, 144, 145; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 100; Four Saints in Three Acts, 91, 100; and Clement Hurd, 123; lecture of, 41–42; lecture tour abandoned by, 125; The Making of Americans, 41; MWB’s correspondence with, 120, 140–42, 167–68; “To do: a book of alphabets and birthdays,” 125, 140, 141; The World Is Round, 2, 99–101, 105–6, 107, 108–14, 118–19, 120, 126, 140,142,172
Steinbeck, John, 98, 99
Stoakley, Frances, 40, 41
Strachey, Lytton, Queen Victoria, 130
Strange, Michael (pen and stage name for Blanche Oelrichs), 91, 98, 158–59, 170–72, 176, 255; Bible recitations of, 217; career of, 130–33, 231–32; characterized, 230; children of, 132, 172–74, 178; Claire de Lune, 130–31; cottage built for, by MWB, 227, 237, 273; damaging impact of, on MWB, 175, 192, 232, 233, 280; death of, 248,251–52,253,255, 288; declining health of, 219, 231–32,234,239,244,248, 250–51; Forever Young, 175; funeral of, 253–54; marriages of, 132, 152, 156–57; MWB’s correspondence with, 206–15; and MWB’s The Dark Wood, 245, 246; MWB’s relationship with, 125–26, 152, 159, 167–68,169,173, 177–78,179–83,192–93,197, 205–6,211, 214,243,244,254,281; MWB’s short stories about, 126–30; on psychoanalysis, 139, 157,227; Resurrecting Life, 177; visit to Maine of, 226–27; Who Tells Me True, 131, 133–34, 139,157,178
Tarry, Ellen, 87, 247; “Janie Belle,” 87
Teasdale, Sara, 41
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 288
Terhune, Albert Payson, 12
Thacher, Edith, see Hurd, Edith Thacher
Thomas, Leonard, Jr., 125, 132, 172–73,174
Thomas, Leonard, Sr., 132
Thomas, Robin, 132, 173, 254; death of, 178
Thomas, Yvonne, 174
Thomson, Virgil, 91
Thorndike, Edward L., 45, 50
Thorne, Judith, 232, 276, 278, 279
Thurston, Harry, 15–16
Thurston, Jane, 15, 16
Time magazine, 70, 78
Town & Country, 117, 154
Tresselt, Alvin, 254, 272; Rain Drop Splash, 204
Trilling, Lionel, 6
Twain, Mark, 12, 70, 187; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 187–88
Tweed, Harrison, 91, 125, 129, 134; Michael Strange’s divorce from, 168, 170, 173
University of California (Berkeley), 49
University of Virginia, 26
Urban, Joseph, 71
Vanity Fair, 117
Van Vechten, Carl, 91,213
Varney, Walter, 274, 275, 276, 283
Vassar College, 24
Veyrac, Robert de, 179, 180
Viking, 77, 108
Vinal, Harry, 97
Vogue, 120, 121
Wagstaff, Dorothy, see Ripley, Dorothy Wagstaff
Ward, Edward, 72
Warren, Dorothy, 166
Weisgard, Leonard, 2, 120, 123, 170,182,238; Caldecott Medal won by, 204–5, 225, 263; characterized, 109–10; The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy, 140; Country Noisy Book, 140; The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds, 246; and death of MWB, 280, 281; The Important Book, 225–26; Little Frightened Tiger, 270; The Little Island, 190–91, 203–4, 263; MWB’s correspondence with, 277–78; MWB’s friendship with, 115–17; MWB’s gift for, 244; New Yorker cover illustration of, 236; Night and Day, 154–55; The Noisy Book, 73, 110–12, 119–20; and The Only House, 164; The Poodle and the Sheep, 153; Quiet Noisy Book, 237; Red Light Green Light, 138, 179; “The Ridiculous Noisy Book,” 226; The Seashore Noisy Book,153
Western Printing Company, 268
White, E. B., Stuart Little, 186, 195
White, Katharine S., 119
Whitman, Walt, 168; “Song of Myself,” 146
Whitman Printing Company, 136
Wiese, Kurt, 86, 106
William R. Scott, Inc., 118, 122, 125; growth of, 139–40; MWB’s relations with, 197–98, 222–25, 226, 237–39, 246. See also Scott, William R.
Williams, Garth, 2, 227, 242, 264, 276, 285; and death of MWB, 279, 281, 282; and Good Housekeeping, 221–22; Little Fur Family, 194–95, 199; Wait Till the Moon Is Full, 229, 230, 231
Wilson, Edmund, 1,71
Wolfe, Thomas, 168
Wooley, Monty, 117
Woolf, Virginia, 86, 99, 144–45; Orlando, 41; A Room of One’s Own, 130, 220; The Waves, 41, 145; The Years, 77
Woollcott, Alexander, 131
World War II, 116, 121, 125, 137, 141, 153; and MWB’s “war efforts,” 176, 182
Wyatt, Thomas, 40
Yale University, 2, 8, 34, 89, 91, 265
Yeats, William Butler, “The Song of the Wandering Aengus,” 253
Ylla (Camilla Koffler), 179, 217, 246,282
Photo Insert
1. Margaret, circa 1917.
Courtesy of Westerly (R.I.) Public Library.
2. Margaret with her sister Roberta (left), the Brown family collie, Bruce, and other pets.
Courtesy of Westerly (R.I.) Public Library.
3. “Tim” (seated, front row, pointing to basket) and Dana Hall School classmates, 1928.
Courtesy of Marion Ristine Bowes.
4. Margaret riding at Hollins College.
Courtesy of Susanna P. Turner.
5. Margaret in May Day Court costume, Hollins College, 1932.
Courtesy of Susanna P. Turner.
6. Graduation portrait, Hollins College, 1932.
Courtesy of Fishburn Library, Hollins College.
7. Marguerite Capen Hearsey.
Courtesy of Fishburn Library, Hollins College.
8. Lucy Sprague Mitchell.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
9. Children at the City & Country School in Greenwich Village playing with the blond wood unit blocks developed by Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s colleague Caroline Pratt, spring 1937.
Courtesy of the City & Country School, New York.
10. Revised typescirpt page for The Noisy Book.
Courtesy of Westerly (R.I.) Public Library, reprinted by permission of the Estate of Margaret Wise Brown.
11. From The Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown.
Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; copyright 1939 by Margaret Wise Brown, copyright renewed 1967 by Roberta Brown Rauch; reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
12. Leonard Weisgard.
Lotte Jacobi Archives, University of New Hampshire.
13. Charles Green Shaw at home with one of his collection of tobacco figures.
Charles Green Shaw Papers, Archives of American Art, Sm
ithsonian Institution.
14. Esphyr Slobodkina.
Photograph by Ted Tessler, courtesy of Esphyr Slobodkina.
15. Michael Strange during the period of her marriage to John Barrymore.
Photograph by Hugh Cecil; Charles Green Shaw Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
16. Publicity photograph of Michael Strange, 1948.
Culver Pictures, Inc.
17. Illustration by Leonard Weisgard from The Little Island. The island pictured closely resembles one which could be viewed directly from The Only House.
From The Little Island by Golden MacDonald, copyright 1946 by Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
18. Ursula Nordstrom.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
19. Garth Williams.
Photograph by Vern Torongo, courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.
20. The Only House.
Photograph by Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978). Untitled. Negative 2⅝ x 2½ inches. The Brooklyn Museum 82.65.1820. Gift of the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga through the Lerner Heller Gallery.
21. Margaret Wise’s Boudoir.
Photograph by Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978). Negative 2¼ x 2¼ inches. The Brooklyn Museum 82.65.1277. Gift of the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga through the Lerner Heller Gallery.
22. Jean Chariot, 1951.
Courtesy of the Estate of Jean Chariot.
23. From Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown.
Illustrated by Garth Williams; copyright 1946 by HarperCollins Publishers, reissued 1984; reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
24. Clement, Thacher, and Edith Thacher Hurd in Vermont.
Courtesy of Thacher Hurd.
25. The “great green room.”
Illustration by Clement Hurd from Goodnight Moon; copyright 1947 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., copyright renewed 1975 by Roberta Brown Rauch and Edith T. Hurd, Clement Hurd, John Thacher Hurd, and George Hellyer, as Trustees of the Edith and Clement Hurd 1982 Trust; reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and of William Heinemann Ltd.
26. In his illustrations for Mister Dog, Garth Williams modeled Crispin’s Caspian’s house on Margaret’s own Cobble Court.
Reprinted by permission from Mister Dog by Margaret Wise Brown, © 1969 by Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
27. Margaret with Crispin’s Crispian.
Photograph by Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1978). Margaret Wise Brown K. Negative 2½ x 2½ inches. The Brooklyn Museum 82.65.1833. Gift of the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga through the Lerner Heller Gallery.
Also by Leonard S. Marcus
The Penguin Book of Classic Children’s Characters
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists Share Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
75 Years of Children’s Book Week Posters: Celebrating Great Illustrators of American Children’s Books
The Making of Goodnight Moon: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective
Copyright
Cover illustration from Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. Copyright © 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Illustrations copyright renewed 1975 by Edith T. Hurd, Clement Hurd, John Thacher Hurd, and George Hellyer, as trustees of the Edith and Clement Hurd 1982 Trust. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Lines from “Primary Education” by Phyllis McGinley reprinted by permission; © 1939 (renewed 1967, 1995). Originally in The New Yorker. All rights reserved.
Illustrations 26 from Mister Dog, © 1969 Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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Cover design by Bradford Foltz
Cover illustration: Goodnight Moon (c) 1947 and Renewal Copyright (c) 1975 Albert E. Clarke Ill Living Trust dated April 4, 2013 and Peaceable Kingdom, LP.
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
This selection may not be re-illustrated without written permission of HarperCollins
Cover photograph: Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978). Margaret Wise Brown. Cellulose acetate negative, 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6 x 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.1834
This book was originally published in 1992 by Beacon Press.
First Quill edition published 1999.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marcus, Leonard S.
Margaret Wise Brown: awakened by the moon /
Leonard S. Marcus.—
lst ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: Boston: Beacon Press, © 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-688-17188-5
1. Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. 2. Women authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Children’s literature—Authorship. I. Title.
PS3503.R82184Z781999
813'.52–dc21
[B] 99-37202
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Digital Edition OCTOBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-289585-1
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