Henry Matthew Brock

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Henry Matthew Brock


Born
in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, The United Kingdom
July 11, 1875

Died
July 21, 1960

Genre
Art


Henry Matthew Brock was a British book illustrator and painter. Born in Cambridge in 1875, he was the son of Edmund Brock (1841-1921), a specialist reader in oriental languages for the Cambridge University Press, and his wife Mary Ann Louise. His elder brother was the artist Charles Edmund Brock, with whom he shared a studio from 1894. In 1912 he married his cousin, Dorothy Joan Pegram, the daughter of the sculptor Henry Alfred Pegram.

Educated at Cambridge School of Art, Brock worked in advertising, for periodicals, and in book illustration. He contributed to Punch magazine, and illustrated many classic works of Victorian and Edwardian fiction, as well as numerous children's books. The University of Reading's H. M. Brock Collection is made
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Average rating: 4.07 · 17,262 ratings · 1,161 reviews · 53 distinct works
Pride and Prejudice [Illust...

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4.30 avg rating — 4,889,898 ratings — published 1813 — 5157 editions
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Sense and Sensibility

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4.09 avg rating — 1,312,543 ratings — published 1811 — 7615 editions
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Emma

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4.05 avg rating — 999,656 ratings — published 1815 — 8411 editions
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Great Expectations

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3.80 avg rating — 882,711 ratings — published 1861 — 875 editions
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Persuasion

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4.15 avg rating — 790,798 ratings — published 1817 — 7975 editions
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Treasure Island

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3.85 avg rating — 546,920 ratings — published 1882 — 11047 editions
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The Wizard of Oz

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Northanger Abbey

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3.85 avg rating — 461,484 ratings — published 1817 — 6219 editions
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Beauty and the Beast

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The Book of Nursery Tales

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1934 — 3 editions
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