Enid Elliott Linder
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| Born | Enid Elliott 28 February 1928 Hatton, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 8 June 2007 (aged 79) Torquay, Devon, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Home town | Torquay, Devon, England |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Philip Linder (Brother-in-law) |
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Enid Elliott Linder (née Elliott; 28 February 1928 – 8 June 2007) was an English artist and writer. She is best known for her silhouette work and for founding The Pennyfarthing Gallery in Torquay. She also painted pictures in oils and watercolour and published cartoons and articles in the local press. Her writings include an illustrated memoir of her childhood in pre-World War II Marylebone, children’s comic poetry and a teenage ghost story.
Early life and education
Elliott was born at Pinley Hill Cottages, Hatton, Warwickshire, the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid. She was brought up in London until September 1939 when she became a war-time evacuee. She had won a scholarship to the Paddington and Maida Vale High School in 1939 and was about to start her new school. All pupils had to attend the school during the last week of August, including new starters in preparation for evacuation with the school. On Friday 2nd September 1939, Elliott, her sister and all the other pupils boarded a train at Paddington Station to Camborne, where the school was hosted by Camborne Girls’ Grammar School.
In February 1940, the school was evacuated again to Torquay Girls Grammar School. In July 1943, Paddington and Maida Vale High School returned to London [1], but Elliott remained at Torquay Girls Grammar School.
In October 1952 she married Max Linder, a well-known Torquay restaurant and hotel owner. She had two children, Max and Stephanie.
Professional life
During the 1970s and 1980s Elliott became a successful silhouette artist in Great Britain. Her work was featured and discussed on three national television programmes and she twice appeared in television interviews herself. She appeared on Pebble Mill at One in December 1975 where she was interviewed by Donny MacLeod, and with Kenneth MacLeod on the Westward Television's magazine programme Westward Diary in February 1976. She was also featured in the Fine Art Trade Guild Journal in January 1977.
The silhouettes (each individually hand-tinted, signed by the artist and traditionally mounted by her son) became collectable and were exported across the world. Silhouette series included: Romance; Georgian; Dickens World; The Children of Old London; The World's Best-Loved Composers and British Royal Family.
She was also a cartoonist and regularly contributed to the Torquay Times, commenting on events of local and national importance.
Childhood Memoir
Enid Elliott Linder recounts her childhood and her parents’ move to London in her memoir, entitled "We learnt about Hitler at the Micky Mouse Club". The memoir was edited posthumously by her niece, Elaine Cox, a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and is an autobiographical account of childhood in London in the 1930s, with detailed descriptions of how her family struggled during in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War II. The book closes with the two girls being evacuated to Cornwall on 2nd September 1939. Whilst researching for this book, Linder commented that "without the past, the present is but a figment of the imagination".
References
- ↑ "Torquay Grammar School for Girls - Jubilee History" (PDF). Torquay Girls' Grammar School. Retrieved Feb 6, 2020.
External links
- Pictures of Life and Character from the collection of Mr Punch (1887) on publicdomainreview.org
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