(1866-1943) Picture book author
In England at the end of the Industrial Revolution, she was a rare female picture book author at the time, and published many picture books.
The book is still read by children all over the world.
Her family was of upper-class background, having risen from textile merchants, and she spent three or four months a year as a child at a lakeside summer resort, where she was able to afford to buy her beloved animals.She developed an interest in the nature and creatures she saw at the resort, and this interest and love nourished her later life and must have become the foundation of who she is.
At that time, the status of women was still low, and it was difficult to survive as a working woman.
In a class-based society, upper-class women simply drink tea and talk about the weather...
This seemingly prosperous yet peaceful and boring life begins to interfere with her growing talents, and she soon finds herself in anguish and facing a wall.
However, what was wonderful about her was that even though she rebelled against her family, she still loved and understood them.
Her exceptionally talented drawings and imagination were not easily developed simply because she was a woman.
Even though she was an academic who had written papers on fungi that rivaled those of other researchers, she was unable to become a researcher simply because she was a woman.
She lost the only person she had ever met who understood her, and considering the historical context of the time, her adversity must have been beyond imagination.
Despite all these hardships, she never gave in and persevered, bringing happiness and inspiration to people all over the world for a long time, and I think the fact that she has been recognized and praised is everything.
In her later years she focused on the conservation movement.
With the fortune he made from publishing, he bought land in the Lake District and devoted himself to the National Trust for Nature Conservation in order to protect the beautiful nature and scenery, and spent his later years as a farmer and farm wife.
"Elni Person" is a tribute to her, who was shaken by the environment and times from her childhood, yet fell in love as a woman, did not rest on her laurels but had convictions, spared no effort as a person, and lived a noble life.