Who is Jessie Willcox Smith?

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered “one of the greatest total illustrators”. She was a contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and beforehand 20th centuries. Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier’s, Leslie’s Weekly, Harper’s, McClure’s, Scribners, and the Ladies’ Home Journal. She had an ongoing attachment with Good Housekeeping, which included the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and after that the establishment of all of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the on pinnacle of 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses.