Margaret Paice Explained

Margaret Paice
Birth Name:Margaret Dawn Cantle
Birth Date:1920 9, df=y
Birth Place:Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Death Place:Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:Children's writer, commercial artist and book illustrator

Margaret Dawn Paice (1 September 1920 – 19 November 2016) was an Australian children's writer, commercial artist and book illustrator.

Early life and education

Margaret Dawn Cantle was born in Brisbane, Australia on 1 September 1920, daughter of Violet (née Burman) and Sydney Cantle.[1] Paice was raised in rural Queensland and was educated locally and through correspondence schooling, before attending Moreton Bay High School.[2]

Career

Paice had several poems published in The Central Queensland Herald in 1937.[3] [4] [5] In 1942 she married Hubert Whitfield Paice.[6] He died in 1955[7] and Paice moved to Sydney, where she studied at the National Art School and the Royal Art Society, gaining employment as a commercial artist.[8]

Paice wrote and illustrated her first book, Mirram, in 1955. It was commended in the picture book category of the 1955 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards.[9] [10] She provided illustrations for her own and other books published by Angus & Robertson, including three books by Ann E. Wells.[11] [12]

Colour in the Creek was a ten-episode television series adapted from Paice's novel of the same name and Shadow of Wings. It was shown on TCN 9.[13] [14]

In 1960 she married Wilfred Harriss, who died in 1975.[15] She moved to the Blue Mountains in 1969 and later to Queensland.

In 1978 she was interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the National Library of Australia's oral history collection. Her papers, including letters and original artwork, are held by the State Library of New South Wales.[16] [17]

Margaret Paice died in Ipswich, Queensland on 19 November 2016, at the age of 96.[18]

Selected works

Author and illustrator

Nonfiction

Illustrator

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Birth registration: Margaret Dawn Cantle. 2022-02-01. Queensland Government: Births, deaths, marriages and divorces.
  2. Web site: Margaret Paice. 2022-02-02. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. en.
  3. News: Cantle. Margaret. 22 July 1937. Little Blue Book. 9. 8. The Central Queensland Herald. 396. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 February 2022.
  4. News: Cantle. Margaret. 5 August 1937. Fireside Musings. 9. 8. The Central Queensland Herald. 398. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 February 2022.
  5. News: Cantle. Margaret. 2 September 1937. Poets' Corner: Call of the Homeland. 9. 8. The Central Queensland Herald. 402. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 February 2022.
  6. Web site: Marriage registsration: Margaret Dawn Cantle. 2022-02-01. Queensland Government: Births, deaths, marriages and divorces.
  7. Web site: Death registration: Hubert Whitfield Paice. 2022-02-01. Queensland Government: Births, deaths, marriages and divorces.
  8. Book: Adelaide, Debra. Debra Adelaide

    . Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide. Pandora. 1988. 978-0-86358-148-9. 150. Debra Adelaide.

  9. News: 10 August 1955. Children's Book Week Opens. 7. Tribune. 907. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 February 2022.
  10. Web site: Mirram. 2022-02-02. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. en.
  11. News: 7 July 1962. Only Half Dozen In Competition Have Literary Merit. 36. 16. The Canberra Times. 10,271. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 February 2022.
  12. Web site: Sub-series 4: Angus & Robertson book jackets, ca. 1950-1964. 2022-02-02. State Library of New South Wales. en.
  13. Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 122
  14. Web site: Colour in the Creek (TV Series). 2022-02-02. Radio Times. en.
  15. Web site: Margaret Paice. 2022-02-02. www.goodreads.com.
  16. Web site: Margaret Paice aggregated collection of papers. 2022-02-02. State Library of New South Wales. en.
  17. Web site: Collection 2: Margaret Paice further papers. 2022-02-02. State Library of New South Wales. en.
  18. Web site: Margaret Dawn CANTLE . 2023-07-31 . Te Tairaawhiti Whakapapa.

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