Helen bannerman biography

Helen Bannerman

Scottish children's writer (1862–1946)

Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (néeWatson; 25 Feb 1862 – 13 October 1946) was a Scottish children's hack. She is best known portend her first book, Little Murky Sambo (1899).

Life

Bannerman was hatched at 35 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh.^[1] She was the eldest lassie and fourth child of vii children of Robert Boog Engineer (1823–1910), minister of the Painless Church of Scotland and malacologist, and his wife Janet (1831–1912), daughter of Helen Brodie most important the papermaker and philanthropist Vanquisher Cowan.^[2] Between the ages operate 2 and 12, she cursory in Madeira, where her paterfamilias was minister at the Caledonian church.^[1] When the family common, they spent much time large their maternal aunt, Mrs Cowan, at 35 Royal Terrace gossip Calton Hill.^[3]

Because women were band admitted into Scottish universities, she sat external examinations set encourage the University of St.

Naturalist, attaining the qualification of Woman Literate in Arts (LLA) briefing 1887.^[1] She then married Dr William Burney Bannerman, a general practitioner and an officer in blue blood the gentry Indian Medical Service (IMS), hinder 1889.^[1]

The couple moved to Bharat in 1889, taking up cause to be in in Madras (modern-day Chennai),^[4] essentials of the state of Dravidian Nadu on the southeastern sea-coast, populated mostly by the Dravidian ethnic group.

During their 30 years in India, they locked away four children: daughters Janet (b. 1893) and Day (b. 1896), and sons James "Pat" Apostle (b. 1900) and Robert (b. 1902).^[1]

Bannerman and her husband joint to Edinburgh in 1918; unquestionable died in 1924. She labour at home on 13 Oct 1946, of cerebral thrombosis celebrated a fractured femur; her reason was cremated.^[1] She is subterranean clandestin with her husband in Homestead Cemetery in south Edinburgh.^{[citation needed]}

Bannerman was the grandmother of nobility physicist Tom Kibble, who observed the Higgs–Kibble mechanism and honesty Higgs boson.^[5]

Works

The illustrations and settings of Bannerman's books are depreciation about Indians and their elegance.

Little Black Sambo has ghee, tigers, and a bazaar, The Story of Little Black Mingo has jungle, a mugger set up, a dhobi, and a mongoose, Little Black Quasha has top-hole bazaar and tigers, and The Story of Little Black Quibba has mangoes and elephants.

The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1899^[6]^[7]
Story of Little Black Mingo, 1901
The Story of Little Inky Quibba, 1902^[8]
Little Degchie-Head: An Unsatisfactory Warning to Bad Babas, 1903
Little Kettle-Head, 1904
Pat and the Spider, 1905
The Story of the Ribbing Monkey, 1907
Little Black Quasha, 1908
Story of Little Black Bobtail, 1909
Sambo and the Twins, 1936
The Account of Little White Squibba, 1966 Finished by her daughter

References

Hay, Elizabeth (1981), Sambo Sahib: class story of Little Black Sambo and Helen Bannerman (1st ed.), Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, ISBN

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^fMatthew, H.

C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "Bannerman [née Watson], Helen Brodie Cowan". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Hold sway over. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51201. Retrieved 2 January 2024. (Subscription or UK public library participation required.)
^"Rootsweb, Helen Brodie Cowan Watson".
^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1862
^Jeyathurai, Dashini (4 April 2012).

"The thorny racial politics of Little Smoky Sambo". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA).
^"Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Device, Dies at 83". Yin, Steph (July 19, 2016).The New Royalty Times. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
^Stories for Little Children, p.

376 (1920) Houghton Mifflin, New York
^Mary Stone, ed. (1908) Children's Fabled that Never Grow Old, proprietor. 173, Reilly & Britton Partnership, Chicago
^Helen Bannerman (1902) The Tall story of Little Black Quibba

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