Comments on: Pearl Binder, artist & writer

By: Jennifer Hamilton

Jennifer Hamilton — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:01:40 +0000

I was once given a wonderful book about clothes and the symbolism of clothes. The title is Muffs and Morals. I’m hoping that this is the same Pearl Binder ( a perfect name for that subject!) . It’s a fabulous book – some of the information astonishing but nevertheless believable.

By: Anne Burns

Anne Burns — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:15:40 +0000

I have a copy of Persuasion by Jane Austen that was illustrated by Pearl Binder. I love the illustrations and have been asked to write an article about Pearl Binder and this book for the Jane Austen Society of Australia. It is very hard to find information and would love to know how she came to illustrate it and some more about the publication. Would love to hear from her family or anyone else who could help me.
Best wishes
Anne

By: Josephine Margit Brunnert

Josephine Margit Brunnert — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:09:20 +0000

How wonderful to be able to contact Josephine and Lou, the daughters of Pearl Binder. I would really appreciate an answer. I was named after you, Josephine, as an expression of my mother Margit`s deeply felt gratitude to your parents for having rescued her 1939 from Nazi Germany and for having given her a home where she was taken in with open arms. My mother is still alive, 98 this year.Please get in touch.

By: Terry Pilkington

Terry Pilkington — Tue, 01 May 2018 10:00:28 +0000

Just bought a book and a painting by this fascinating lady,and I’m just researching her now
Anyone like to see the images just email.
Kindest Regards
Terry

By: Johanna Hecht

Johanna Hecht — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:10:10 +0000

I was delighted to find this site as it helped me identify a lithograph that passed down to me from my family’s collection and to learn so much about its creator. (My uncle was the American painter, Ben Shahn and it may be that he or his brother Philip were acquainted with Pearl Binder through lefty circles.) I’m looking for a home for the litho, the one you identify as Aldgate. Do you know of any British collections that might be interested? I’m also looking here in the US but thought it might make more sense in the UK.

By: Pamela Marre

Pamela Marre — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:04:19 +0000

I am collecting together some of the history of my mother – Soochie Marre – who will be 100 years old this year. She was born and lived in Bethnal Green until bombed out on the second night of the Blitz in the 2nd World War. She has often told me about working for Pearl Binder – whom she really admired. I think she was some kind of assistant but I’m not sure what she did and her memory is now too far gone for her to recall. I suspect she worked for her for a fairly short time, but if you ever come across her name or have any idea what work she did for Pearl, I would really love to know.

By: Simon Cook

Simon Cook — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:08:16 +0000

My Grandmother Lillian Pratten (Molly) was a live in maid for Pearl and my parents knew her as Aunt Polly. They have all passed on now but I have been entrusted with the two lithographs she did for my Grandmother and my parents. Both Pearl and Lord Elwyn Jones visited my parents in New Zealand in 1975 which caused quite a stir in a very quiet and sleepy suburb of Te Atatu Sth, Auckland when they turned up with police escort and British High Commission limo. They are part of our family history and it is great to learn more about her life.

By: peter stephan jungk

peter stephan jungk — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:02:45 +0000

dear gentle author, i am currently writing a biography of my late aunt edith tudor-hart. she was a close friend of pearl binder, dan jones’ mother. i would be most thankful if you could put me in touch with mr. jones – i have a question i would very much like to ask him. thank you in advance! peter stephan jungk

By: Dr Julian Tudor Hart

Dr Julian Tudor Hart — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:31:32 +0000

My mother Dr Alison Macbeth was a close friend of Pearl Binder, so we accumulated a fair collection of her lithographs and charcoal drawings. A lot of them got pinched during the war, in the blitz when there were good opportunities for well-informed thieves. Two that survive were a charcoal portrait of Paul Robeson as a very handsome young man, when he first hit London around 1934, and a charcoal sketch of a little Chinese girl on the back of a menu. The Communist and fellow-travelling circle referred to in your excellent article included a surprisingly large number of fading Russian aristocratic exiles.

By: Bonnie Williams Speeg

Bonnie Williams Speeg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:03:49 +0000

This is beautiful. Thank you for the charming and real material on this most interesting woman.