A brief biography of Mabel Lucie Attwell can be found here. The Cheshire Cat The Mouses´s Tale The Pig Baby The Trial of the Knave of Hearts ´Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late The pool of tears The Mad Tea Party The Mock Turtle´s Story Go back Mabel Lucie Attwell  (1879-1964) Mabel Lucie Attwell became a household name during the 1930's and 40's. She was born 4 June 1879 at Mile End in London, the ninth child out of ten children born to a butcher. She studied at both the Regent School of Art and Heatherley's School of Art, but because she disliked formal training and grew bored with copying, she never completed either course. She preferred to illustrate her own fantasies. In 1908, Attwell married artist Harold Earnshaw. Their daughter Peggy was the inspiration for the typical Mabel Lucie Attwell toddler and achieved immortality through the illustrations in Attwell's books. Peggy (Wickham) later became a talented artist and illustrator in her own right. Between 1905 and 1913, Attwell illustrated ten books for W. & R. Chambers, providing 4 to 8 colour plates for each. By 1911, she was designing postcards and greeting cards for Valentine & Sons of Dundee.  She illustrated two gift books for Hodder & Stoughton. The first was Peeping Pansy in 1918 by Marie, Queen of Roumania. The Queen even invited Attwell to stay at the Royal Palace in Bucharest. The second book was Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie who admired her work and personally requested her to illustrate this edition. During her career, she designed advertisements, posters, calendars, figurines and wall plaques. She also contributed to several periodicals and annuals. In 1943, she started a comic strip in the London Opinion called "Wot a Life". Sets of Mabel Lucie Attwell China were used in the Royal Nursery of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and later Prince Charles... 24 complete place settings. Her illustrations of chubby, winsome children were extremely popular during the 1930's and 40's. Although she was criticized, she became a wide commercial success. In 1945 Attwell moved to Cornwall to live with her son Peter. She died in Cornwall on Guy Fawkes Day, 5 November 1964. When the British copyright on Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland expired in 1907, any publisher was free to produce a new edition. Several did, and to differentiate themselves from the others (and to create copyrightable property of their own) many chose to print new illustrated editions. This coincided with the peak of what has been called `The Golden Age of children´s book illustration´ when dozens of lavish, large quarto sized gift books with colour plates mounted on the pages were produced. The time was from 1905 until 1914. These books are collector items now. Click on any picture of Alice to see  examples by five painters who all produced versions of Alice in the very early 1900s.