ABSTRACT
Iν the years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939, there was a flurry of activity in the field of handwriting. The educationists were promoting print script as easy-to-teach alphabet for young children. In some circles it was even put forward as a complete new handwriting system. There were, however, many others, particularly those involved in the arts, who held quite different views. Foremost among them were Alfred Fairbank, the calligrapher, and a committed writer of the italic hand, and Marion Richardson who had already made a name for herself as an imaginative teacher of art before developing her ideas about handwriting
