Evelyn Whitaker

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Evelyn Whitaker (1857 - 1903) was a British woman novelist. All her works were published anonymously until after her death when her identity was revealed. Her nineteen novels and several shorter stories were issued by multiple publishers in Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States from 1879-1915. For more than a decade after her death, her two most popular titles, Miss Toosey's Mission and Laddie, continued to be reissued as gift books for children. These little novels with religious or moral themes were given as Sunday School prizes, often as attendance awards. Such books where generally inexpensively made with inferior paper, ink, and illustrations but with attractive bindings. The ornate bindings made up half the production costs.


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[edit] Titles and year of first publication

  • Laddie
    • 1879
  • Tip-Cat
    • 1884
  • Miss Toosey's Mission
    • prior to 1883
  • Lil
    • 1889
  • Our Little Ann
    • 1885
  • Zoë
    • 1890
  • Pen
    • 1891
  • Rose and Lavender
    • 1891
  • Pris
    • 1892
  • Dear by the author of Tip-Cat
    • 1892
      • London: A. D. Innes
      • Boston: Roberts Brothers
  • Baby John
    • 1892
      • Boston: Roberts Brothers
  • Pomona
    • 1894
  • My Honey
    • 1895
      • London: A. D. Innes
      • Boston: Roberts Brothers
  • Don
    • 1895
  • Belle
    • 1898
      • W. & R. Chambers
      • Boston: Little, Brown
  • Rob
    • 1898
      • W. & R. Chambers
  • Tom's Boy
    • 1900
  • Lassie
    • 1901
      • W. & R. Chambers
  • Faithful
    • 1902
      • Boston: Little, Brown
  • Gay
    • 1903
      • W. & R. Chambers


  • For the Fourth Time of Asking

Although sometimes attributed to her, Evelyn Whitaker is not the author of Gilly Flower (1889).

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[edit] Major themes

[edit] Illustrators

Books by Evelyn Whitaker were illustrated by the following artists:

  • R. Barnes
    • Pomona, 8 illustrations, W. & R. Chambers
    • Zoë, W. & R. Chambers, 1890
  • Herbert A. Bone
    • Rose and Lavender,4 illustrations, W&R Chambers, n.d. (c. 1910)
  • Walter Cooper Bradley
    • Laddie & Miss Toosey's Mission, frontis, Henry Altemus, n.d.
  • George Reiter Brill
  • Randolph Caldecott
    • Tip Cat, W. Smith, 1880
  • J.D. Cooper
    • Tip Cat,(copper engraving)W. Smith,1880
  • Sidney Cowell
    • My Honey, frontis,Ward Lock,1910
  • Eliot Keen
    • Laddie (the Editha Series,)H. M. Caldwell,1905
  • J Finnemore
    • Don, frontis & 8 illus, W&R Chambers, 1895
  • G. Nicolet
    • Belle,6 illus,W&R Chambers
  • H. Winthrop Pierce
    • Laddie, frontis + 3 others plates B&W, E. P. Dutton,1891.
  • Percy Tarrant (Margaret Tarrant's brother: Margaret illustrator of Ward & Lock's Fairy Tales, 48 plates, 1919 but may be a reissue)
    • Tom's Boy, 8 illustrations, W&R Chambers,1900
    • Gay,6 illus., W&R Chambers
    • Gay: a story, Little, Brown,1903
  • ?W H Listern? (uncertain of spelling)
    • Zoë, Henry Altemus, 1899
  • W. Rainey
  • Jessie Wilson
    • Lassie, frontis, W&R Chambers,n.d.
    • Lassie, Little Brown, 1903
  • J. ? Harley
    • Baby John, Zoë, For the Fourth Time of Asking, Little Brown, 1903
  • J. Williamson
    • Rob, Ward & Lock

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