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Amy Sawyer
Amy Sawyer (1863-1945) is a painter, illustrator, textile artist, and playwright. She was born in Sussex in June 1863. Sawyer studied at the Herkomer School of Art, Bushey. Between 1887 and 1910 she exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the Society of Women Artists, Brighton, and the Paris Salon. Sawyer was central to the Art and Craft movement in Ditchling, Sussex.
Further Reading
Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
Houfe, Simon. “Sawyer, Amy 1887-1909[sic].” The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1981. 446. Print.
Sawyer, Amy. Sussex Village Plays, and others. Hove: Combridges, 1934. Print.
Illustration archive
Illustrations by Amy Sawyer
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Illustrations from The Heart of the World
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'You shall pay for that Englishman'
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Maya
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'Can you read this writing?'
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'You shall pay for that, Englishman.'
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'This is your doing, woman! Are you not afraid?'
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I did not so much as suffer my eyelids to tremble.
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So beautiful was this bubble... that for some minutes Maya watched it.
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Presently the curtain was drawn, and the lady Maya joined us.
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'It is I, Zibalbay, your lord, come home.'
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For a moment he stood before her.
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Next came Maya herself.
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'You– false Lady of the Heart!'
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She was mad.
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Presently the great pile was alight.
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Maya
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'Can you read this writing?'
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Out of the mouth of the pit... sprang a vast column of water
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Presently the great pile was alight.
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'This is your doing, woman! Are you not afraid?'
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'It is I, Zibalbay, your lord, come home.'
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It was... Zibalbay,... come back from the boundaries of death.
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'Oh! that I were free to avenge you!'
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Presently the curtain was drawn, and the Lady Maya joined us.
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She was mad.
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The mass of stonework fell, ... taking Molas with it.
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'You— false Lady of the Heart.'
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'You shall pay for that, Englishman.'
The Heart of the World
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I did not so much as suffer my eyelids to tremble.
The Heart of the World
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So beautiful was this bubble... that for some minutes Maya watched it.
The Heart of the World
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