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 pure illustrators”.
She was a contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 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 relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933.
Among the more than 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.
Jessie Wilcox Smith’s Illustrated Books
- ____ Stephen Gilmore’s Dream, Nisbet 1887
- Longfellow, H. W. – Evangeline, Gay & Bird 1897
- Alcott, L. M. – An Old-Fashioned Girl, Little 1902
- ____ The Book of the Child, Stokes 1903
- Sage, B. – Rhymes of Real Children, Duffield 1903
- Burnett, F. H. – In The Closed Room, Hodder 1904
- Stevenson, R. L. – A Child’s Garden of Verses, Longmans 1905
- Smith, J. W. A – Child’s Book of Old Verses, Duffield 1910
- Higgins, A. C. -Dream Blocks, Chatto 1911
- ____ Dickens’s Children, Scribner 1912
- Moore, C. C. – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Houghton 1912
- ____ A Child’s Book of Stories, Chatto 1913
- ____ Mother Goose, Dodd 1914
- Alcott, L. M. – Little Women, Little 1915
- Underwood, P. – When Christmas Comes Round, Chatto 1915
- Kingsley, C. – The Water Babies, Dodd 1916
- Chapin, A. A. – The Everyday Fairy Book, Harrap 1917
- MacDonald, G. – At the Back of the North Wind, McKay,1919
- Macdonald, George – The Princess and the Goblin, McKay,1920
- Stewart, M. – The Way to Wonderland, Hodder 1920
- Chapin, A. A. – The Now-a-Days Fairy Book, Harrap 1922
- Spyri, J. H. – Heidi, McKay,1922
- Crothers, S. M. – Children of Dickens, Scribner 1925
