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Esme RobertsRobina Esme Roberts (13 December 1911 – 1995) was a British artist, best known for her poster designs.[1] Early lifeShe was born on 13 December 1911[2] (or possibly 8 December 1912),[3] and raised in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.[1] Roberts trained in Vienna and Munich.[1] CareerRoberts created book covers, illustrations and Art Deco designs.[1] Many examples of her work are on show in the Sleaford Museum.[1] Her 1934 and 1935 Art Deco posters advertising steamer cruises to the Royal Dock are in the permanent collection of the London Transport Museum.[4][5] Personal lifeIn 1939, she married George Gordon Jeudwine (1913–1954) in Kensington, London, and they moved to Rauceby, Lincolnshire.[1][6] He was the son of George Gordon Jeudwine and Alice Mildred Phelps, and the grandson of George Wynne Jeudwine (1849–1933). On his death on 20 October 1954, he was a solicitor of Peake, Snow & Jeudwine, 5 Market Street, Sleaford, and was living at Eastgate House, Sleaford.[7] In 1959, as Robina Jeudwine a now single woman, she travelled on a Compañía Transatlántica Española ship to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.[3] She died in 1995 in Gloucestershire.[2] References
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