Marion St John Webb
Marion St John Adcock Webb (5 December 1888 – 2 May 1930)[1] was an English writer of novels and poetry for children that presaged A. A. Milne, with her character "The Littlest One".[2]
Life
She was born in Hampstead on 5 December 1888, the daughter of the poet Arthur St John Adcock and Marlon Louise Taylor.[3] She grew up at 42 Paddington Street and was admitted to St Marylebone School in Marylebone in January 1894, having just turned 5 years old.[4]
Webb wrote poems for a series of fairy books illustrated by Margaret Tarrant,[5] with whom she worked on around 20 books.[6] The treatment of childhood by Tarrant and Webb is now regarded as sentimentalised, typical of its time.[7] She had no children of her own,[8] She died 2 May 1930 in London.[9]
Partial bibliography
- Mr Papingay's Flying Shop
- Mr Papingay's Ship
- Mr Papingay's Caravan
- Mr Papingay and the Little Round House
- The Little Round House
- The Little One In Between
- Eliz'beth, Phil and Me
- The Littlest One
- The Littlest One Again
- The Littlest One: His Book
- The Littlest One: Third Book
- John, Me and the Dickery Dog
- The Magic Lamplighter
- The House with the Twisting Passage
- Knock Three Times! (1917, fantasy novel, illustrated by Tarrant, repub. 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, reprint. 2007)
- A Pocketful of Posies
- The Littlest Fairy
- The Girls of Chequertrees
- Adventures at Chequertrees
- Jonathan Mends the Mats
- The 'Normous Sunday Story Book
Fairies series
- The Pond Fairies
- Heath Fairies
- Seashore Fairies
- Weather Fairies
- Wild Fruit Fairies
- Twilight Fairies
- Orchard Fairies
- Forest Fairies
- Flower Fairies
- Insect Fairies
- Seed Fairies
- House Fairies
- Water Fairies
References
- ^ "'WEBB, Marion St John". Who's Who. Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ Daniel Hahn; Humphrey Carpenter; Mari Prichard (26 March 2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. OUP Oxford. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-19-105726-7.
- ^ Who's Who Among Living Authors of Older Nations. 1932. p. 416.
- ^ London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
- ^ Daniel Hahn; Humphrey Carpenter; Mari Prichard (26 March 2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. OUP Oxford. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-19-105726-7.
- ^ Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-0-7188-3084-7.
- ^ Alderson, Brian. "Attwell, Mabel Lucie". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30499. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Memorial noticeThe Queenslander, Thursday 2 October 1930. p. 56.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
External links
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- Works by Marion St John Webb at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Marion St John Webb at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Marion St John Webb at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalogue records
- "March House Books Blog: Marion St. John Webb". Retrieved 28 January 2016.