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Jessie Willcox Smith

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1863 - 1935)

Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children’s books.



Bibliography

At the Back of the North Wind (1919)

The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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At the Back of the North Wind (1989)

The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)

Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)

Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Read online at archve.org

Author(s): Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Children of Dickens (1925)

Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Samuel McChord Crothers
Illustrator(s): Euphame Mallison
Jessie Willcox Smith

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A Child’s Book of Old Verses (1910)

An anthology of verse for children. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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A Child’s Book of Stories (1911)

A large collection of perennial favorite fairy tales, fables and stories. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Penrhyn W. Coussens
Various
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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A Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses (1915)

A poem is on one page and a picture stamp to illustrate it is placed on the opposite page.

Author(s): Et al
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1900)

The Autograph Edition, limited to 500 sets, includes 135 plates. The frontispiece in each volume is in color and also in black and white, the latter signed by the artist. The Old Manse Edition has only 100 plates but was printed from the same type and likewise limited to 500 sets. There were several different bindings of the two sets.

Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle
Jessie Willcox Smith

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Dickens’s Children (1912)

This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Evangeline (1897)

Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith

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Heidi (1922)

This is the well loved story of a little Swiss orphan who goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, her exile in the big city and her return home. Originally published by David McKay it was added to the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics in 1958. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Heidi (1958)

This is the well loved story of a little Swiss orphan who goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, her exile in the big city and her return home. Originally published by David McKay it was added to the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics in 1958.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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In the Closed Room (1904)

Judith meets another little girl when her parents are house sitting for the summer, and together they explore the closed room on the fourth floor. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1914)

In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Wilcox Smith includes seven hundred and fifty nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1991)

In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Willcox Smith includes seven hundred fifty nursery rhymes.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Little Mother Goose (1918)

This is a smaller format version of Jessie Willcox Smith’s magnum opus, containing more than six hundred nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Little Women or Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy (1915)

The story of four girls growing up during the Civil War. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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