Landscape painter, muralist, book illustrator and writer, born in Worcestershire. She studied at Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art, at Royal Academy Schools, where she won the Creswick Prize and Silver Medal, and with Alexander Jamieson. Travelled extensively. Exhibited at Tate Gallery, ROI, SWA and NEAC. Was most noted for her children’s books and The Family from One End Street, 1937, which won the Carnegie Gold Medal, and its sequels. In 1948 she illustrated Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. The volume First Affections told of her early childhood. Lived in Lewes, Sussex.