Mabel Lucie Attwell

Attwell, Mabel Lucie (1879–1964), British children's illustrator, who studied at Regent Street and Heatherley's Schools of Art. Her pen‐and‐ink and watercolour drawings of rosy‐cheeked chubby toddlers graced nurseries the world over, and were reproduced on postcards, Underground posters, china, and toys. She illustrated Mother Goose (1910), Alice in Wonderland (1911), and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Andersen (1910, 1914). Queen Marie of Romania and J. M. Barrie requested her work for Peeping Pansy (1918) and Peter Pan and Wendy (1921).

Bibliography

• Dalby, Richard, Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration (1991).
• Doyle, Brian, Who's Who of Children's Literature (1968).
• Peppin, Brigid, and Micklethwait, Lucy, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators (1983).

— Mary Louise Ennis