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'''Eve Garnett''' (9 January 1900 – 5 April 1991) was an [[English people |English]] writer and illustrator. She is best known for ''The Family from One End Street'', a 1937 [[children's novel]] that features a large, small-town, working-class family.▼
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▲'''Eve Garnett''' (9 January 1900 – 5 April 1991) was an [[English people
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Garnett was born in [[Worcestershire]]<ref name=penguin/> and educated at two schools in [[Devon]] and at the [[Alice Ottley School]] in [[Worcester, England|Worcester]]. She then went to the [[Chelsea Polytechnic]] School of Art and the [[Royal Academy]] Schools, and eventually exhibited at the [[Tate Gallery]], the [[Lefevre Gallery]] and the New English Art Club.
== Career ==
Garnett was commissioned to illustrate [[Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)
That book, ''[[The Family from One End Street]]'', was rejected by several publishers who deemed it "not suitable for the young", but eventually published by [[Frederick Muller]] in 1937. It won the second annual [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] from the [[CILIP|Library Association]], recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a [[British subject]].<ref name=medal1937/> (It beat Tolkien's ''[[The Hobbit]]'' among others.) For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.<ref name=topten/> It is regarded as a classic, having remained in print to the present day.
The manuscript of a sequel, ''[[Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street]]'', was damaged in a fire in 1941, and thought to be destroyed, but it was partly deciphered and partly assembled from a magazine and finally published by [[Heinemann (publisher)
She was also an enthusiastic traveller, and spent much of her time in northern latitudes, claiming to have crossed the [[Arctic Circle]] 16 times. She was particularly interested in the [[Denmark–Norway
== Death ==
Eve Garnett, who lived for many years in [[Lewes]], [[East Sussex]], died in a nursing home there on 5 April 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/eve-garnett/8739/|title=Eve Garnett|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-09-29|archive-date=29 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929140651/https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/eve-garnett/8739/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Works==
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Garnett wrote seven books which were all self-illustrated.<ref name=bookseller/><ref name=worldcat/>
* ''[[The Family from One End Street|The Family from One End Street:
* ''In and Out and Roundabout:
* ''[[Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street]]'' (
* ''[[Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn]]'' (
* ''To Greenland's Icy Mountains:
* ''Lost and Found:
* ''First Affections:
;As illustrator<ref name=bookseller/><ref name=worldcat/>
* ''The London Child'' (John Lane, 1927), by [[Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)
* ''The Bad Barons of Crashbania: Vol. 42, Continuous Stories, Jolly Books'' (Blackwell, 1932), by [[Norman Hunter (author)
* ''Is it Well With the Child?'' (Muller, 1938), "drawings by Eve Garnett ... with an introduction by [[Marjorie Bowen]] and a foreword by [[Walter de la Mare]]" <!-- no text except intro and foreword? -->
* ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (Penguin, 1948), [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1870)
* ''A Book of the Seasons:
* ''A Golden Land'' (Constable, 1958), edited by [[James Reeves (writer)
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