Helen Stratton

Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (1867–1961) was an artist and book illustrator.

Biography

Page 1 illustration from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Stratton was born in Nowganj, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India on 5 April 1867. Her birth/baptism is recorded in the India Office Collection at the British Library and has been indexed on the IGI (familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGQ2-BZ6) She lived and worked in London and for many years in Bath where she died age 95. She attended Art Nouveau school in Glasgow where she studied child clothes. Between 1896 and 1909 she illustrated four different editions of Hans Christian Andersen, three editions of One Thousand and One Nights (the first of which as one of five illustrators in all) and one edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales. She was also a well-known watercolour illustrator for a book called The Princess and the Goblin which was written by George MacDonald and its sequel The Princess and Curdie in 1912.[1]

Books Illustrated include –

Norman Rowland Gale - Songs For Little People (Constable, 1896),

Hans Christian Andersen – Tales of Hans Andersen (Constable, 1896),

Walter Douglas Campbell - Beyond The Border (Constable, 1898),

Hans Christian Andersen – The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (George Newnes, 1899),

Anonymous - The Arabian Nights Entertainments (George Newnes, 1899),

George Laurence Gomme – The Princess Story Book (Constable, 1901),

Edmund Spencer – Tales From The Faerie Queen, Retold by Clara L. Thompson (Spaight, 1902),

Various – Fairy Tales for Little Folk (Blackie, 1902),

Various – Long, Long Ago: A Picture Book of Nursery Tales (Blackie, 1902),

Thomas Malory – Selections From Le Morte D’Arthur (Edited by C. L. Thomson) (Marshall, 1902),

Clara Linklater Thomson – Tales From The Greek (Marshall, 1902),

Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1903),

Charles Lamb – Shakespeare For Young People (The Tempest) (Alexander Moring, 1904),

Hans Christian Andersen – Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Blackie, 1905)

Gladys David Davidson (selected and retold for children by) – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Blackie, 1906),

Agnes Grozier Herbertson – Heroic Legends (Blackie, 1908),

John Bunyan (retold by Agnes Grozier) – The Pilgrim’s Progress (Blackie, 1909),

Gladys David Davidson (selected and retold for children by) – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Blackie, 1909; extended ed. of the 1906 ed.),

Jessie Mabel Dearmer – The Playmate: A Christmas Mystery (Mowbray, 1910),

George MacDonald – The Princess and The Goblin (Blackie, 1911),

George MacDonald – The Princess and Curdie (Blackie, 1912),

Carmen Sylva, Crown Princess of Romania - The Lily of Life (Hodder, 1913).

Ethel Carnie – The Lamp Cat, and Other Stories (Headley Bros, 1913),

Eliza F. Pollard – A Saxon Maid (Blackie, c1914),

Jean Lang – A Book of Myths (Jack, 1915),

Eleanor Cecilia Barnes – As The Water Flows: A Record of Adventures in a Canoe on The Rivers and Trout Streams of Southern England (Grant Richards, 1920),

Brothers Grimm – Stories From Grimm (Blackie, 1921),

Henry Lawrence Somers Cocks – The Mystery of Malvern Mire (Wilson & Phillips, 1924),

Enid Leale – Tony’s Desert Island (Nelson, 1929),

Christine Chaundler – Ronald’s Burglar (Nelson, 1934)

References

  1. ↑ "Helen Stratton". Retrieved 12 August 2013.

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