| LC control no. | n 85080387 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mee, Margaret |
| Variant(s) | Brown, Margaret Ursula Bartlett, Margaret Ursula |
| Associated country | England Brazil |
| Birth date | 1909-05-22 |
| Death date | 1988-11-30 |
| Place of birth | Chesham (England) |
| Place of death | Leicester (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Botanical artists |
| Found in | Her Flores do Amazonas, c1980: t.p. (Margaret Mee) LC data base, 4/24/85 (hdg.: Mee, Margaret) Her Margaret Mee, 1992: p. 18 (1909-1988; b. England; in Brazil from 1952) Margaret Mee's Amazon, 2004: jkt. (b. Margaret Ursula Brown, May 22, 1909) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 3 Oct., 2017 (Mee (née Brown; other married name Bartlett), Margaret Ursula, political activist and botanical artist; born on 22 May 1909 at The Crest, White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire; married, on 11 January 1936, Reginald Bruce Bartlett; became an ardent trade unionist; divorced Bartlett in 1943; enrolled as an evening student at St Martin's School of Art, Westminster, where she met Greville Ronald Bosworth Mee (b. 1909), a fellow student who became her lifelong partner; In 1952, by which time Margaret had changed her name to Mee by deed poll, the Mees went to São Paulo, Brazil; she set out in 1956 for Belém and her first experience of the Amazonian flora; Unlike Amazon botanical artists before her, Margaret worked entirely from living plants; In November 1988 the Mees came to England; On 30 November the Mees were travelling by car when they were involved in an accident at Seagrave crossroads, Leicestershire; Margaret suffered severe chest injuries and died later that day in Leicester Royal Infirmary) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60330> |
| Associated language | eng por |
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