Louey ChisholmLouey Chisholm (Louise Charlotte Jack, née Steinitz;[1] 1863[2] – 28 October 1948)[3] was a British writer, editor, and publisher of books for children.[4] LifeLouise Charlotte Steinitz was born in 1863, the daughter of German and Scottish parents.[3] Her father was Reverend J. J. Steinitz.[5] She was educated in Dollar and Edinburgh.[3] She married Edwin Chisholm Jack, a publisher, on 28 June 1894.[5] He encouraged her interest in poetry and storytelling for children.[3] The couple lived in Edinburgh, where Louise was active in the Edinburgh Poetry Club, and the local branch of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.[3] They had a house built for them by Robert Lorimer, moving later to a terrace house in Morningside.[3] Her close friends included art historian James Caw, writer Herbert Read, and artist Henry John Lintott.[3] The Scotsman described her as "a woman of exceptional gifts of understanding, of poetic apprehension, and quick sympathy".[3] As Louey Chisholm, she edited two volumes of fairytales: In Fairyland (1904) and The Enchanted Land (1906).[3] These were illustrated by Katherine Cameron, and were successful.[3] Also in 1906, she published Golden Staircase, an anthology of poetry for children.[3] Chisholm subsequently conceived the Told to the Children[6] and Shown to the Children series which, according to The Scotsman, "had a great vogue, and became, and continued, for many years a model of what such things might and could be".[3] She credited the success of the books to their illustrations.[7] Told to the Children included works by Lena Dalkeith and Janet Harvey Kelman.[8] The Shown to the Children series included works on animals, flowers, birds, the sea-shore, the farm, trees, nest and eggs, butterflies and moths, stars, gardens, and bees.[9] In 1910, The Bookman described Chisholm as:
The couple's daughter, Marie Winifred Jack (1895–1988), was the subject of a portrait by Henry John Lintott, exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibition of 1920.[1] Louise Charlotte Jack died on 28 October 1948.[3][11] She left money to The Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh Old People's Welfare Council, Mothers’ Welfare Clinic, and St Saviour's Child Garden, Canongate, Edinburgh.[12] Selected bibliography
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