Marjorie Quennell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marjorie Quennell

British historian, illustrator and museum curator

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1883

Place of Birth: Bromley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: historian, illustrator, curator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Marjorie Quennell

  • Marjorie (Courtney) Quennell (1884–1972) was a British historian, illustrator and museum curator.Her husband was architect Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935).
  • They met at the Junior Art Workers Guild.
  • They had three children, including a son Peter Courtney Quennell (1905–1993) who became a well-known writer and was editor of History Today.After World War I the Quennells wrote a series of illustrated children’s books, A History of Everyday Things in England, 4 volumes (1918–1934).
  • The series ended with The Good New Days (1935), where modern industrial and agricultural processes, together with the problems of the future, were considered.
  • A second series was written, Everyday Life in… (1921–26) describing living from Prehistoric to Norman times.
  • A third series of Everyday Things (1929–32) covered Greece in antiquity.
  • After World War II Marjorie illustrated two more books in the Everyday Life series on Biblical times, the texts being written by others.
  • Marjorie was a painter in oils and watercolour, mostly of architectural subjects. After her husband died in 1935 she was appointed curator of the Geffrye Museum.
  • While there she installed the series of "period rooms" on which the museum is still based to this day.
  • She remained there until she retired in 1940, then moved to the United States

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