Mabel Lucie Attwell became famous in the first half of the nineteenth century for her delightful illustrations of chidren, fairies and animals. These are particularly well illustrated in a series for Shelley China.
Mabel Lucie Attwell was born in 1879 in London, the ninth of ten children. She was educated at St Martin’s School of Art. In 1908, she married Harold Earnshaw and had three children, Peggy, Peter and Brian. Peggy later became a talented artist and illustrator in her own right. After the war she mov...