https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Mary_Fairburn&feed=atom&action=historyMary Fairburn - Revision history2024-03-29T11:11:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Mary_Fairburn&diff=385913&oldid=prevÉowyn at 22:28, 11 February 20242024-02-11T22:28:53Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1967]] she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in [[May]] [[1968]] sent them to [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 [[May]] [[1968]]). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1967]] she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in [[May]] [[1968]] sent them to [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 [[May]] [[1968]]). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn [[1974]], and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in [[1993]]. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn [[1974]], and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in [[1993]]. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fairburn was born in London. She was educated at St. Swinthun's School for girls, Winchester, the Winchester School of Art and the Institute of Education, University of London. In the mid-1950s, she taught art at St. Bonaventure's boys' school Forest Gate, east of London, and in [[1958]] took a job at Masjid-i-Sulieman, Iran, teaching art and music to the children of the employees of an American oil company. In [[1957]] and again in the early 1960's, she painted a number of (now destroyed) murals on religious subjects at St. Peter's primary school in Winchester. She travelled in Europe and Africa during [[1962]] to [[1965]]. She returned to Winchester, and held a number of exhibitions.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her illustrations, unknown until [[2012]], were published as a body by HarperCollins in the Official Tolkien Calendar [[2015]]. Fairburn has been living in Australia since [[1976]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1967]] she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in [[May]] [[1968]] sent them to [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 [[May]] [[1968]]). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1967]] she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in [[May]] [[1968]] sent them to [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 [[May]] [[1968]]). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn [[1974]], and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in [[1993]]. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn [[1974]], and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in [[1993]]. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mary Fairburn''' (born <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>13 [[June<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>]] [[1933]]) is an English artist and musician, best known for her illustrations for The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, which in 1968 were seen and admired by the author</del>. Her illustrations, unknown until 2012, were published as a body by HarperCollins in the Official Tolkien Calendar 2015. Fairburn has been living in Australia since 1976.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mary Fairburn''' (born 13 [[June]] [[1933]]) is an English artist and musician, best known for her illustrations for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>The Lord of the Rings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which in [[1968]] were seen and admired </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>J.R.R. Tolkien<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Tolkien]]</ins>. Her illustrations, unknown until <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>2012<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, were published as a body by HarperCollins in the Official Tolkien Calendar <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>2015<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. Fairburn has been living in Australia since <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1976<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fairburn was born in London. She was educated at St. Swinthun's School for girls, Winchester, the Winchester School of Art and the Institute of Education, University of London. In the mid-1950s, she taught art at St. Bonaventure's boys' school Forest Gate, east of London, and in 1958 took a job at Masjid-i-Sulieman, Iran, teaching art and music to the children of the employees of an American oil company. In 1957 and again in the early 1960's, she painted a number of (now destroyed) murals on religious subjects at St. Peter's primary school in Winchester. She travelled in Europe and Africa during 1962 to 1965. She returned to Winchester, and held a number of exhibitions.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fairburn was born in London. She was educated at St. Swinthun's School for girls, Winchester, the Winchester School of Art and the Institute of Education, University of London. In the mid-1950s, she taught art at St. Bonaventure's boys' school Forest Gate, east of London, and in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1958<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>took a job at Masjid-i-Sulieman, Iran, teaching art and music to the children of the employees of an American oil company. In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1957<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and again in the early 1960's, she painted a number of (now destroyed) murals on religious subjects at St. Peter's primary school in Winchester. She travelled in Europe and Africa during <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1962<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1965<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. She returned to Winchester, and held a number of exhibitions.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1967 she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in May 1968 sent them to Tolkien. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 May 1968). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the Tolkien family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1967<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>May<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[</ins>1968<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>sent them to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[J.R.R. </ins>Tolkien<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Tolkien]]</ins>. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>May<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[</ins>1968<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[J.R.R. </ins>Tolkien<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Tolkien]] </ins>family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn 1974, and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1993. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1974<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>1993<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her art work has been exhibited in Winchester, Amantea (Italy), Melbourne and Castlemaine.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her art work has been exhibited in Winchester, Amantea (Italy), Melbourne and Castlemaine.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her young adult fantasy novel, Selangath: A Legend of the Sea, with her own illustrations, was self-published in 2019.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her young adult fantasy novel, Selangath: A Legend of the Sea, with her own illustrations, was self-published in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>2019<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Mary Fairburn''' (born [[13 [[June]]]] [[1933]]) is an English artist and musician, best known for her illustrations for The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien, which in 1968 were seen and admired by the author. Her illustrations, unknown until 2012, were published as a body by HarperCollins in the Official Tolkien Calendar 2015. Fairburn has been living in Australia since 1976.<br />
Fairburn was born in London. She was educated at St. Swinthun's School for girls, Winchester, the Winchester School of Art and the Institute of Education, University of London. In the mid-1950s, she taught art at St. Bonaventure's boys' school Forest Gate, east of London, and in 1958 took a job at Masjid-i-Sulieman, Iran, teaching art and music to the children of the employees of an American oil company. In 1957 and again in the early 1960's, she painted a number of (now destroyed) murals on religious subjects at St. Peter's primary school in Winchester. She travelled in Europe and Africa during 1962 to 1965. She returned to Winchester, and held a number of exhibitions.<br />
In 1967 she left England, intending to drive across Europe and Asia to Australia, but had to turn back at India due to bureaucratic difficulties. She wintered in Teheran, where a friend was working for the British Council, and read his copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On her return to England, she executed a suite of pictures based on the novel, mainly in coloured ink, and in May 1968 sent them to Tolkien. He wrote back in strongly approving terms, telling Fairburn her pictures were "splendid. They are better pictures in themselves and also show far more attention to the text than any that have yet been submitted to me" (letter of 24 May 1968). In a subsequent letter, he wrote, "After seeing your specimens I am beginning to change my mind [that is, about not having The Lord of the Rings illustrated], and I think that an illustrated edition might be a good thing." However, soon after this, Tolkien broke his leg in a fall, and was hospitalised; Fairburn was in difficult financial circumstances and needed to urgently pursue more immediately rewarding work, and the Tolkien family home in Oxford was packed up for a move to the English south coast. As a result of these disruptions the negotiations between the writer and artist went no further.<br />
Unable to find secure housing or employment, Mary Fairburn left England in autumn 1974, and travelled through Asia, eventually settling in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught a range of courses for the Council for Adult Education, and met her husband, Patrick Currie Flegg. They retired to Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1993. She became involved there with a number of musical ensembles, notably Odds and Sods.<br />
Her art work has been exhibited in Winchester, Amantea (Italy), Melbourne and Castlemaine.<br />
Her young adult fantasy novel, Selangath: A Legend of the Sea, with her own illustrations, was self-published in 2019.</div>Aarrnn