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Violet Moore Higgins - Searching old records for stories

Searching old records for stories (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
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Violet Moore Higgins

Violet Moore Higgins, who also published under the name Violet Moore, was an American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and writer.

Violet Idelle Moore was born in Elgin, Illinois on November 28, 1886. She graduated from Elgin High School, a public high school, in 1905. In the early 1900s, she attended the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1910, she married artist Edward Robert Higgins, who was an art director for the Newspaper Enterprise Artists Services (NEA) of Scripps-Howard. They had a son, Lindley Roberts Higgins. They had a daughter named Mary Elizabeth Higgins in 1912, who died at one year old in 1913.

In 1913, Higgins painted a cover for the Saturday Evening Post that focused on the United States women's suffrage movement. Around the mid-1910s, she created a series of books for the Whitman Publishing Co. under the name "Story Time Tales". The books contained retellings of traditional stories from different areas of the world.

By the 1920s, Higgins worked for newspapers as a journalist. She interviewed and wrote articles about celebrities, and wrote and illustrated for the NEA along with her husband.

Higgins was also the illustrator of the comic strip "Drowsy Dick", first published in the Sunday World. The comic was originally illustrated by Ernest J. King, but after less than a month, the strip was taken over by Higgins. Her first comic of "Drowsy Dick" was published on October 10, 1926. The cartoon was later dropped from the newspaper when they lowered their number of comic pages. In the 1920s, after readers asked about the comic's absence, the comic was brought back and published in the New York World. Between 1926 and 1927, she additionally was an illustrator for the comic book, Treasure Chest.

From 1954 to 1963, she was a feature writer and illustrator for the Associated Press, with an illustrated children's feature named "Junior Editors". "Junior Editors" started in 1954 and was meant to capture children's attention during the competing rise of magazines and television. The feature ran six times a week and included text and a do-it-yourself section for children.

Higgins died at age 80 on July 28, 1967 in New York City. At the time of her death, she lived in The Bronx.

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Laid a stone on each eyelid

Laid a stone on each eyelid (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
Here was the man she would choose

Here was the man she would choose (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
The misfortune to have been born blind

The misfortune to have been born blind (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
He sent heralds throughout his kingdom

He sent heralds throughout his kingdom (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
He could see three men kneeling

He could see three men kneeling (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
Day after day the gong was heard

Day after day the gong was heard (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
All watched the strange new star

All watched the strange new star (1916)

Violet Moore Higgins (American, 1886 – 1967)
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