Margaret Mee
Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE ( May 22nd, 1909 in White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire as Margaret Ursula Brown, † November 30, 1988 in Seagrave, Leicestershire ) was a British illustrator of botany, which specialized in plants of the Brazilian Amazon.
Life
After the visit of Dr Challoner 's Grammar School in Amersham and Bushey in Bushey Academy, she taught for a short time in Liverpool. Then they traveled abroad. In March 1933, she experienced the Reichstag fire in Berlin and the subsequent boycott of Jewish businesses. During the Second World War Mee worked in Hatfield as a draftsman at the de Havilland Aircraft Company. 1936 married Margaret Mee Reginald Bruce Bartlett; the marriage was divorced in 1943. Like her husband, she became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. After the war Mee studied at the Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where she, her future spouse met Greville Mee. At Camberwell College of Arts in 1950 she made her degree in painting and design. 1952 Mee moved with her husband to Brazil, where she initially taught art in Sao Paolo. In 1956 she took part in several expeditions Amazon, where it made about 400 drawings of rare plants. Margarett Mee died age of 79 in a car accident in Seagrave.