Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (1867 - 1961)

Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton was a British artist and book illustrator. She was born in Nowganj, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India, as the daughter of a surgeon in the Indian military service. Following her father's retirement, the family moved to England, settling in Bath. Helen was in Kensington, London to attend art school, where she became a follower of book illustrator and painter.
Helen became well known for bold and imaginative pen and ink illustrations to classic tales, her first success being Norman Gale's Songs for Little People. In 1898 she drew 167 illustrations for Walter Douglas Campbell's Beyond the Border, then a year later reached the peak of her illustration career with upwards of four hundred drawings for a finely crafted art nouveau quarto edition of The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. In the same year she collaborated with William Heath Robinson to create hundreds of illustrations for The Arabian Nights Entertainments.
Although initially noted for her black and white illustrations she also illustrated in watercolour for works such as H.C. Herbertson's Heroic Legends (1908) and Jean Lang's A Book of Myths (1915). Her work for The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald and its sequel The Princess and Curdie (1912) were particularly popular and have been frequently reprinted.
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