ABSTRACT
Window exhibition, and ended in 1900, when he died; he wrote about 500 letters, and she wrote 1,000 or more. Ruskin, the authoritarian art critic, offered advice and friendship and devoted a lecture to Greenaway called "Fairyland" on May 30,1883. Feeling that she was wasting much effort on her illustrations and datebook art, he encouraged Greenaway to paint larger works, which she did. Greenaway subsequently illustrated over twenty books written by others. In addition to a collection of cat poems edited by Ruskin, Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats (1885), Greenaway's best known collaborators were Bret Harte (The Queen of the Pirate Isle, 1886) and Robert Browning (The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1888).
