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Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead
Born	17 September 1904 Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Died	21 September 1997
Other names	Olive Shaw, Margaret Olive Shaw
Occupation	Illustrator

Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead (17 September 1904 – 21 September 1997) was an artist and botanical illustrator known as Olive Shaw and Margaret Olive Shaw.

She was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, the daughter of Agnes Margaret (née Airy) and Herbert Alfred Shaw. Her older brother was botanist Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1901−1895).^[1] In 1933, she married botanist Edgar Milne-Redhead (1906−1996), a friend of her brother's, and thereafter she was known as Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead.^[2]

She was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 1926 to 1930, recognized as an oil painter. A 1927 exhibition in Woodbridge in 1927 showed three oils by Shaw titled Molly, Maimie, and The Mighty Hunter.^[1]

Illustration by Olive Shaw for *Eve's Beauty Secrets* (1926)

Under the name Olive Shaw, she contributed over thirty pen illustrations to Eve's Beauty Secrets, a beauty primer written by W. A. Poucher in 1926, which outlined cleansing and cosmetic regimens for women.^[3] Laudatory reviews in the women's pages of newspapers also cited Shaw's illustrations as contributing to the overall effect of the “pleasing production”.^[4] The book was instrumental in launching Poucher to a long and successful career with the House of Yardley.^[5]

Milne-Redhead's botanical illustrations appeared in the Kew Bulletin from the 1940s to 1960s.^[6] Her illustrations contributed to the ongoing botanical project to record the plant species of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, which resulted in Flora of Tropical East Africa. Her husband recorded 161 new names for the volumes.^[7]

She died at Colchester, Essex on 21 September 1997.^[1]

Publications

W. A. Poucher. Illustrated by Olive Shaw. Eve's Beauty Secrets. London: Chapman & Hall, 1926.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Suffolk Artists - SHAW, Margaret Olive". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
^ Polhill, Roger. "Obituary: Edgar Milne-Redhead". Independent, 4 July 1996.[1]
^ Hayden Lorimer, ‘An Aid to Loveliness’: Lavender, Femininity and the Affective Economy Of English Beauty’, Journal of Historical Geography, doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2022.12.002
^ “Books of the Moment: Eve’s Beauty Secrets”, Western Mail, 23 December 1926, p. 9.
^ Hayden Lorimer (2015) 'Standards of Beauty: Considering the Lives of W. A. Poucher', GeoHumanities, 1:1, 51-79, doi:10.1080/2373566X.2015.1068667
^ "Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead". Plant Illustrations.
^ "Milne-Redhead, Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley (1906-1996)". International Plant Names Index. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens.

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