'''Louey Chisholm''' ('''Louise Charlotte Jack''', née '''Steinitz''';<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Winifred, Daughter of Edwin C Jack Esq {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/winifred-daughter-of-edwin-c-jack-esq-186757 |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=artuk.org |language=en}}</ref> 1863<ref>{{Cite web |date=1948 |title=Scotland, Modern And Civil Deaths & Burials 1855-2024 |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=SCOTSDE/DEA/1948/0190/L/TC/02/0075&tab=this |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Find My Past}}</ref> – 28 October 1948)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=29 October 1948 |title=Death of Mrs E. C. Jack |work=The Scotsman |pages=4}}</ref> was a British writer, editor, and publisher of books for children.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Louey Chisholm {{!}} Fairy Tales at CU Boulder {{!}} University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://www.colorado.edu/projects/fairy-tales/louey-chisholm |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=www.colorado.edu |language=en}}</ref>

== Life == Louise Charlotte Steinitz was born in 1863, the daughter of German and Scottish parents.<ref name=":0" /> Her father was Reverend J. J. Steinitz.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=29 June 1894 |title=Scotland, Newspaper Marriage & Anniversary Notices |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_104262212081X&tab=this |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=www.findmypast.co.uk}}</ref> She was educated in Dollar and Edinburgh.<ref name=":0" />

She married Edwin Chisholm Jack, a publisher, on 28 June 1894.<ref name=":2" /> He encouraged her interest in poetry and storytelling for children.<ref name=":0" /> The couple lived in Edinburgh, where Louise was active in the Edinburgh Poetry Club, and the local branch of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.<ref name=":0" /> They had a house built for them by Robert Lorimer, moving later to a terrace house in Morningside.<ref name=":0" /> Her close friends included art historian James Caw, writer Herbert Read, and artist Henry John Lintott.<ref name=":0" /> ''The Scotsman'' described her as "a woman of exceptional gifts of understanding, of poetic apprehension, and quick sympathy".<ref name=":0" /> left|thumb|Illustration from by Katharine Cameron from ''Stories from the Ballads'' by Mary MacGregor, part of the ''Told to the Children'' series edited by Louey Chisholm As Louey Chisholm, she edited two volumes of fairytales: ''In Fairyland'' (1904) and ''The Enchanted Land'' (1906).<ref name=":0" /> These were illustrated by Katherine Cameron, and were successful.<ref name=":0" /> Also in 1906, she published ''Golden Staircase'', an anthology of poetry for children.<ref name=":0" /> Chisholm subsequently conceived the ''Told to the Children''<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 April 1921 |title="Told to the Children" |work=Children's Paper |pages=24}}</ref> and ''Shown to the Children'' series which, according to ''The Scotsman,'' "had a great vogue, and became, and continued, for many years a model of what such things might and could be".<ref name=":0" /> She credited the success of the books to their illustrations.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mar1908steads00melbuoft/page/282/mode/1up?q=%22Louey+Chisholm%22 |title=The Review of Reviews |date=1 March 1908 |publisher=Melbourne |others=Robarts - University of Toronto |pages=282}}</ref> ''Told to the Children'' included works by Lena Dalkeith and Janet Harvey Kelman.<ref>{{Cite book |last=E.P. Dutton (Firm) |url=https://archive.org/details/booksforchildren00epdu/page/20/mode/2up |title=Books for children : a list from which you can select gifts for your children which will open to them the world of delight to be found in good books |date=1913 |publisher=New York : E.P. Dutton |others=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign}}</ref> The ''Shown to the Children'' series included works on animals, flowers, birds, the sea-shore, the farm, trees, nest and eggs, butterflies and moths, stars, gardens, and bees.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Henderson |first=J. A. |url=https://archive.org/details/gardensshowntoch00hend/page/n5/mode/2up |title=Gardens shown to the children |last2=Kelman |first2=Janet Harvey |last3=Allen |first3=Olive |date=1912 |publisher=London: T.C. & E.C. Jack |others=New York Public Library}}</ref>

In 1910, ''The Bookman'' described Chisholm as:<blockquote>an excellent hand at the retelling of familiar fairy tales... While retaining the spirit and poetry of the stories, she contrives to express them in language suitable for the comprehension of a youthful audience...<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_bookman_1910_39_supplement/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22Louey+Chisholm%22 |title=The Bookman 1910: Vol 39 Supplement |date=1910 |publisher=Hodder And Stoughton Ltd Mill Rd |others=Internet Archive |pages=63 |language=English}}</ref></blockquote>The couple's daughter, Marie Winifred Jack (1895–1988), was the subject of a portrait by Henry John Lintott, exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibition of 1920.<ref name=":1" />

Louise Charlotte Jack died on 28 October 1948.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=1949 |title=England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019 |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBOR%2FGOVPROBATE%2FC%2F1949-1949%2F00175079&tab=this |website=Find My Past}}</ref> She left money to The Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh Old People's Welfare Council, Mothers’ Welfare Clinic, and St Saviour's Child Garden, Canongate, Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 March 1949 |title=Edinburgh Wills and Estates |work=Edinburgh Evening News |pages=3}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

* ''In Fairyland'' (1904) * ''Told to the Children'' Series, edited by Louey Chisholm (1905–1909)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_o6b3/mode/1up?q=%22Louey+Chisholm%22 |title=The Cambridge guide to children's books in English |date=2001 |publisher=Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-521-55064-2}}</ref> * ''Shown to the Children'' Series, edited by Louey Chisholm (from 1906) * ''The Enchanted Land'', with pictures by Katharine Cameron (1906) * ''The Golden Staircase: Poems and Verses for Children'', chosen by Louey Chisholm, with Pictures by M. Dibdin Spooner (1907) * ''Simple Susan'', re-told by Louey Chisholm (1910) * ''Wordsworth Thoughts'', selected by Louey Chisholm (1910) * Nursery Rhymes, chosen by Louey Chisholm, with pictures by F.M.B. Blaikie (1911) * ''Nursery Rhymes'', chosen by Louey Chisholm, and Fables, re-told for children by Lena Dalkeith (1940)

== References == <references />

== External links ==

* [https://archive.org/search?query=Louey+Chisholm Works by Louey Chisholm] at Internet Archive * [https://www.colorado.edu/projects/fairy-tales/louey-chisholm Fairytales by Louey Chisholm] * [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portrait-of-a-woman-before-a-bookcase-186758/search/2024--actor:lintott-henry-john-18771965/page/1/view_as/grid Painting of Charlotte Louise Jack]<ref name=":0" /> by Henry John Lintott at Art UK

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