Ida rentoul outhwaite biography template
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Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul (1888–1960)
Highly popular Australian children's fantasy illustrator who assisted in raising the ställning eller tillstånd of illustration in her country and the quality of publishing for children. Signed work: I.S. Rentoul, I.S.R. Pronunciation: OOTH-wait. Born Ida Sherbourne Rentoul on June 9, 1888, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died in Melbourne on June 25, 1960; daughter of John Laurence Rentoul (a Presbyterian moderator-general and professor of theology) and Annie Isobel (Rattray) Rentoul (an amateur watercolorist); sister of Annie Rattray Rentoul (1882–1978); attended Presbyterian Ladies' College; married (Arthur) Grenbry Outhwaite, on December 9, 1909; children: Robert Rentoul (1910–1941); Anne Isobel Rentoul (b. 1911); Wendy Laurence Rentoul (b. 1914); William Grenbry Rentoul (1919–1945).
Published first illustrated stories (1903); began illustrating for magazines (1903); illustrated first book, Mollie's Bunyip, by A.R. and I.S. Rentoul (Melbourne 1904); b
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“Spirit of speed”: Ida Outhwaite and the Shell Fairies
by Carmen Mok, Archives and Special Collections Digital Presence Intern
Ida Outhwaite and the Shell Fairies
In my preparation for the #HistoryMonth2020 campaign in October, I beganan exploration of the University of Melbourne Archives and Special Collections’ extensive collections in search of weekly themes. The theme of children’s literature has allowedme to step into Australian author and illustrator Ida RentoulOuthwaite’s fairyland. When we talk about fairy tales, they usually conjure up stories of adventure, magic and fantasy. Advertising practitioners generally utilized fairy tales to promote popular children’s products such aschocolate, tissue and children’s clothing. I was surprised to discover, however, a connection between the Shell Company and Outhwaite’s work in a series of children’s books with an explicitly commercial message.
Featured in the University of Melbourne Archives and Spe
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painter and illustrator, was born on 9 June 1888 at Carlton, Melbourne, the second surviving daughter of Rev. John Laurence Rentoul and his wife Annie Isobel née Rattray. Her early life was spent in Ormond College at the University of Melbourne where her father was Professor of New Testament Greek. Ida showed artistic ability from an early age, but received no art training beyond help from her mother (who painted watercolours), her parents fearing that she would lose her individuality at art school. Her elder sister, Annie Rattray Rentoul (1882-1978), was the literary one of the family: she was awarded a first-class honours degree, a classics scholarship and shared the Higgins poetry prize in 1905. The sisters first collaborated on six fairy stories published in New Idea in 1903 (when Ida was just 16), a collaboration that was to continue for many years. Their first book, Mollie’s Bunyip , appeared the following year. Their Australian Songs for Young and Old was exhibi