Jennetta Vise Explained

Jennetta Vise
Birth Name:	Marjory Jeannetta Blythe Vise
Birth Date:	9 September 1912
Birth Place:	Chichester, UK
Death Place:	Chichester, UK
Occupation:	Illustrator
Alma Mater:	Ecole des Beaux-Arts The Sorbonne
Parents:	Toye Vise

Jennetta Vise, FSZ^[1] was a prolific book, comic and magazine illustrator, with work appearing in publications including Mary Grannan's Just Mary series,^[2] Robin annuals and many publications for the Girl Guides Association.

Personal life

Marjory Jeannetta Blythe Vise was born in Chichester to father Reginald Toye Vise, a journalist, and mother Ethel Maude (née Badrick). She had an older sister, Barbara, who became assistant editor at Modern Woman magazine.^[3] Vise studied at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne.^[4] She lived in London until 1975 and was a member of The Women's Press Club.^[5] She died at home in Sussex.

Illustrator

At the age of 18 Vise illustrated an article by her father, about which Tatler commented that people would “appreciate the skill of the two artists responsible for this joint word and pencil picture, which has quite a butterfly-like touch.”^[6] She was represented by Grestock and Marsh, London.^[7]

Girl Guides

After “being discovered” by Margaret Playle, the general editor for the Girl Guide Association (GGA),^[8] Vise illustrated the following publications:

• The Big Test: The Story of the Girl Guides in the World War by Christian Catherine (1947)
• The Girl Guide Annual by Girl Guides Association (1951)
• The Brownie Pack: A Handbook for Brownie Guiders by Ailsa Brambleby (1956)
• The True Book about Girl Guides by Alix Liddell (1956)
• Trefoil Tales by Alix Liddell, Vera Armstrong and Elizabeth Hill (1957)^[9]
• The Brownies’ Annual by Girl Guides Association (1959, 1962, 1963)
• The Golden Bar Book of Brownie Stories by Robert Moss (1961)
• Three for Trouble by Ailsa Brambleby (1963)
• Three for Pack Holiday by Ailsa Brambleby (1964)
• The Brownie Book by Girl Guides Association New Zealand (1965)
• The Brownie Book, by Ailsa Brambleby (1965)
• The Brownie Guide Handbook by Ailsa Brambleby (1968)
• Musical Fun with the Brownie Pack by Hettie Smith (1976)

Other selected publications

• Out of Town by A. A. Thomson (1935)^[10]
• What About a Family? by Lou Chaloner (1944)^[11]
• The Noddles Again by Madeleine Collier (1944)^[12]
• London Lover by Trevor Allen (1948)^[13]
• Savoyard Scrapbook by W S Gilbert for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (1948)^[14]
• Fables for Children by Irene Pearl (1948)^[15]
• Christina’s Fairy Book by Ford Madox Ford (1949)^[16]
• The Purple Muffin the Mule Book by Annette Mills (1953)^[17]
• The Scottish Pupil’s Spelling Book (1955)^[18]
• The Helpful Giant by Eileen Arthurton (1957)^[19]
• Fluent French Comedies by Charles S Elston (1958)^[20]
• Just Mary Stories by Mary Grannan (1958)^[21]
• More Just Mary Stories by Mary Grannan (1959)
• Better Spoken English by Geoffrey Barnard (1959)^[22]
• Wild Rose of the King’s Chase by Hilda Moss (1960)^[23]
• Gay Way Picture Dictionary (1961)^[24]
• Measuring is Fun by Frederick J Vickery (1961)^[25]
• The Story of Porky Peek by Elizabeth Maitland (1963)^[26]
• The Little Red Bus; The New Bed; No Hat! and Plum Pie by Miss Read (1964)^[27]
• Cluck, the Little Black Hen; Hob and The Horse-Bat by Miss Read (1965)^[28]
• The Old Shoe House by Ella Ruth Boyce (1966)^[29]
• Soucoupes Volantes!! by R N Allan (1966)^[30]

Magazines

• Homes & Gardens^[31]
• Modern Woman^[32]
• Argosy^[33]
• Pippin, including contributions to the original Andy Pandy strip^[34]
• Child Education, including craft articles co-authored by Madeleine Collier^[35]

Other work

In 1935 she decorated a miniature rocking horse that was presented to British circus owner Bertram Mills by the Royal Veterinary College in recognition of his service to animals.^[36]

Notes and References

1. Book: Grenville, Kenneth . 1950 . The Story of Peter Otter and Me . Charles Letts and Company . London .
2. Book: Hume, Margaret . 2006 . Just Mary: The life of Mary Evelyn Grannan . Dundurn . 333 . Toronto . 155002597X.
3. Book: Forster, Laurel . 2020 . Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain . Edinburgh University Press . Edinburgh . 237 . 978-1474470001 .
4. December 1979 . . Death of a dear friend to the Association . Guider . London . Girl Guides Association . 539.
5. Book: Forster, Laurel . 2020 . Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain . Edinburgh University Press . Edinburgh . 237 . 978-1474470001 .
6. July 1930 . . Notes from here and there . The Tatler . London, UK . Vol. CXVII No. 1517 . Conde Nast Publishing Co . xviii.
7. June 1953 . . What is our secret? . Advertiser's weekly . London . Admark Publishing Co . 497.
8. December 1979 . . Death of a dear friend to the Association . Guider . London . Girl Guides Association . 539.
9. News: 1957-03-29 . The Kensington News and West London Times . . The Books of the Month . 10 . London, UK .
10. News: 1935-10-23 . Evening Chronicle . . All sorts of gossip . 8 . Newcastle upon Tyne, UK .
11. News: 1944-06-02 . International Woman Suffrage News . Jessica Maxted . What about a family? . 11 . London, UK .
12. Book: Collier, Madeleine . 1944 . The Noddles Again . St Martin’s Press . London .
13. News: 1948-03-07 . The Observer . . Back again . 2 . London, UK .
14. News: 1948-01-31 . The Sphere . . Two novelists with a penchant for exactitude . 30 . London, UK .
15. Book: Pearl, Irene . 1948 . Fables for Children . London . London .
16. News: 1949-12-09 . Daily Mail . . Children's Stories . 4 . London, UK .
17. News: 1953-08-13 . Yorkshire Evening Post . . The Purple Muffin Book . 4 . Leeds, UK .
18. Book: Scottish Council, for Research in Education . 1955 . The Scottish Pupil's Spelling Book . University of London Press . London .
19. Book: Arthurton, Eileen . 1957 . The Helpful Giant . London . London .
20. Book: Elston, Charles . 1958 . Fluent French Comedies . London . London .
21. News: 1981-12-05 . Edmonton Journal . . Children's Bedtime books to ease day's end . 4 . Edmonton, Canada .
22. Book: Barnard, Geoffrey . 1959 . Better spoken English . London . London .
23. News: 1960-05-24 . The Birmingham Post and Birmingham Gazette . . Wild Rose of the King's Chase . 4 . Birmingham, UK .
24. Book: Boyce, E R . 1961 . Gay way . MacMillan and Co. . London.
25. Book: Vickery, Frederick . 1961 . Measuring is fun . St Martin’s Press . London .
26. Book: Bowker, R R . 1978 . American Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950–1977 . 82 . Bowker . New York .
27. Book: Dereham, Jenny . 2014 . Mrs Griffin sends her love and other writings . Orion Books . London, UK . 310 . 9781409148142 .
28. Book: Dereham, Jenny . 2014 . Mrs Griffin sends her love and other writings . Orion Books . London, UK . 310 . 9781409148142 .
29. Book: Bowker, R R . 1978 . American Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 . 443 . Bowker . New York, USA .
30. Book: Whiteman, Bruce . 1985 . A bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints, 1906-1080 . 265 . Macmilllan Company of Canada . Toronto .
31. July 1948 . . Nursery Rhymes . Homes and Gardens . London . Vol. 30 . Future PLC . 69.
32. April 1946 . . Snakes and Ladders . Modern Woman . London . Vol. 68 No. 9 . George Newnes . 70.
33. December 1960 . . Miracle at Greccio . Argosy . London . Vol. 12 No. 1 . Fleetway Publications . 7.
34. December 1979 . . Death of a dear friend to the Association . Guider . London . Girl Guides Association . 539.
35. August 1965 . Madeleine Collier and Jennetta Vise . The Woolly Farm . Child Education . London, UK . Scholastic . 2.
36. News: 1935-01-21 . The Guardian . . Horses as Collectors . 8 . London, UK .