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To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

Jessie Willcox Smith

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Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith
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Born: September 6, 1863
Died: May 3, 1935 (aged 71)
Bio: Jessie Willcox Smith was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Known for:
  1. Dickens's children
  2. The now-a-days fairy book
  3. The Seven Ages of Childhood (1909)
  4. Boys & Girls Of Bookland (1923)
  5. The Children of Dickens (1925)

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