Edna's biographer, Alison Thomas, contributed the Foreword and then declared: "Your book has arrived……… a red letter day. It is fabulous. What a marvellous tribute to all Edna achieved."
"The combination of Browne’s text, Edna Clarke Hall’s beautifully presented illustrations and passages from her unpublished autobiography, 'Heritage of Ages'. have created a vital addition to our understanding of Clarke Hall as an artist." (Lydia Miller, British Art Journal)
"It's wonderful" (Tom Edwards, MD of Abbott and Holder Ltd)
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Featuring nearly 400 illustrations this is the first book on the art of Edna Clarke Hall. It is both long overdue and a pioneering and comprehensive survey of the work of an exceptional and extraordinary artist: Edna was recognised as an artistic genius when she entered the Slade School of Fine Art at the early age of fourteen during its heyday in the 1890s under drawing master Henry Tonks.

Edna was a visionary and individualistic artist, like William Blake, but she was also ‘quick on the draw’, sketching life around her like a candid photographer. Before leaving the Slade her deeply spiritual, aesthetic and spontaneous fun-loving personality was partially eclipsed by marriage, when only nineteen, to a radical but older Victorian lawyer, William Clarke Hall. From their honeymoon onwards Edna felt a great gulf in her emotional life and this became partially filled by her obsessive illustrations for one resonant source, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and in the 1920s her highly expressive and original Blakean Poem-Pictures. This was at a time when she was acknowledged as one of Britain’s leading female artists, with The Times hailing her as ‘the most imaginative artist we have’.
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All proceeds, after the cost of this edition, are to be donated to charities concerned with endangered species disadvantaged by Man.