Talk:Florence Harrison

Two Florence Harrisons

According to http://www.florenceharrison.com/index2.html an artist named Emma Florence Harrison has frequently been mistakenly credited with the works of Florence Susan Harrison, and that Florence Susan Harrison not Emma Florence Harrison is the artist who illustrated for Blackies. (This article is self-published so I haven't gone ahead with any amendments in the absence of source that meets WP:RS.) January (talk) 10:59, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

This confusion is referenced in the 2010 book By a woman's hand: Illustrators of the golden age. The book mentions that Florence Harrison who is best known for her work published by Blackie and Sons is also known to have exhibited at the Royal Gallery in London from 1887-1891. The book also claims that recent evidence discovered by Mary Rosalind Jacobs of England is the source of the claim that she was Australian and named Florence Susan Harrison. Bitofdust (talk) 21:08, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

References

This was added to article by someone and should have been in the Talk page instead

I have extensively researched both Emma Florence Harrison and Florence Susan Harrison and have written several books about her. The Blackie artist was most definitely Florence Susan Harrison who was English. Many of her relatives moved to Australia [including a niece and great niece who had received letters and artwork from Florence and whom I have met), but Florence lived and died in England. My books concerning Florence and her family include these titles:

1. *"Florence Harrison: A Case of Mistaken Identity*" (biographies of Emma Florence Harrison and Florence Susan Harrison)
2. *" The Magical World of Florence Harrison*"
3. "Fair Winds and a Following Sea*" (Life and Times of master mariner Norwood Harrison who was Florence's father)
4. *"Folkestone's Rockhill House School*" (a girl's school run by Florence's aunt and mother)
5. *"Catalog of Florence Harrison's color Illustrations*"
6. *"The Art & Poetry of Florence Harrison: A Pictorial Bibliography*".

Sandy Hargrove --the eloquent peasant (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Level C: Thank you for this; but I'm still confused. What are the birth/death dates for the two women? And when you say "Florence lived and died in England", do you mean Emma Florence, or Florence Susan? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:17, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I haven't researched. This paragraph I copied and pasted from the article. Someone had added this to the article. I took their whole paragraph where they said they had extensively researched and I pasted it here to the talk page. This was the contributor where this affirmation came from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SandyH3 Sorry for the confusion.--the eloquent peasant (talk) 16:08, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

1877-1955 belongs to the Australian Florence Susan Harrison. Meanwhile Emma Florence Harrison is asserted to have exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887 [1] and is as I understand the UKian. It looks like most of this article is about the Ozzie. Possible DoD for EFH is 1925 [2] --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:40, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Thank you. However, the same source says EFH lived 1877–1955 (so exhibited at the RA age ten?!?) so I am concerned that its author, too, may have been confused. Also, your refer to "the Australian Florence Susan Harrison", yet Level C asserts that "Florence Susan Harrison who was English... Florence lived and died in England". My brane hurts! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:56, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Oops, yes, my mistake. Susan - 1877-1955, lived in England. Emma - ?-1925, also lived in England, is my best guess. In so far as this article is about the person who produced the listed work, that seems to be Susan. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:21, 23 January 2019 (UTC)