{"title":"Macgregor, Angusine J.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngusine Jeanne Macgregor (1879-1961)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Scottish artist.  Her father, Angus Macgregor, was a farmer’s son from Laggan in the Central Highlands of Scotland, and her mother, Jeanne Chisholm, was born in the same hamlet.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForsaking farming for the drapery trade, Angus Macgregor moved south and became a commercial traveller.  After stints in Worcester and at Herne Hill in South London, he settled his family in 1881 in Birmingham, where Angusine, the sixth of six daughters, was born in the suburb of Harborne in 1879, as was the seventh child and only son, Peter Chisholm Macgregor, who died in infancy.  The household was by then sufficiently well-off to accommodate both a live-in lady’s maid and a domestic servant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn due course, Angusine went on to study at the Birmingham School of Art and subsequently became an illustrator and writer of children’s books.  From July 1917 to July 1919, she served as housekeeper with the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Ajaccio, Corsica, then returned to the family home in Birmingham, from where she continued to work as an illustrator. She never married and died at the Parkfield Nursing Home in Birmingham on 26th February 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooks illustrated by Macgregor:-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNon-Ladybird books:-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mysterious Disappearance of What and Why 1905\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Story of Snips 1909\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bunny Book 1909 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Story of Flip and Fuzzy: A Picture-book for Little Folk 1911\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlippity the Runaway 1919\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLadybird (series 401):-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBob Bushtail's Adventures 1941\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDowny Duckling 1942\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBunnikin's Picnic Party 1940\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBunny's First Birthday 1950\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGinger's Adventures 1941\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmoke and Fluff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePiggly Plays Truant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLost at the Fair 1948\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Green Umbrella\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive Little Kittens\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Runaway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMr Badger to the Rescue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe First Day of the Holidays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bunney-Fluffs' Moving Day\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Macgregor_Angusine-8561529.jpg?v=1774781553","url":"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/macgregor-angusine-j.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}