Jessie
Wilcox Smith
was born in
Philadelphia in 1863. After Smith studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, under Thomas Eakins,
and the Drexel Institute under Howard
Pyle, she became a full-time illustrator. Specializing in drawing
children, she illustrated A Child's Garden
of Verses (1905), The Water Babies
(1905), Alice in Wonderland (1915),
Little Women (1915) and Heidi
(1922).
Smith also had her work published in Colliers
Magazine, Scribner's,
Harper's Magazine, The
Century, Ladies' Home Journal,
and Good Housekeeping. Jessie
Wilcox Smith died in 1935.
Jessie Wilcox Smith,
Everyday Fairy Book (1917)
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