Alice in Wonderland, 1916

Margaret Winifred Tarrant

1888–1959

 

Margaret Tarrant was the daughter of landscape painter and illustrator Percy Tarrant. She followed in her father’s footsteps and began illustrating Christmas cards at age eighteen. Her first book commission was Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies in 1908 when she was twenty, and she was already an established illustrator when she began her art studies at Heatherley’s School of Art. She illustrated books for a number of different publishers, and also produced postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and prints. Books illustrated by her include Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1916), Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1912), and Harry Golding’s Zoo Days (1919). In 1920, she began an association with the Medici Society, for whom she produced a very popular series of flower fairy books.

Alice in Wonderland, 1916

Alice in Wonderland, 1916

“A long time to wait!”

Zoo Days, 1919

“The sea-lions gave us a lovely ride”

Zoo Days, 1919

“Mr. Chimp was reading the newspaper”

Zoo Days, 1919

“Full up. Inside only!”

Zoo Days, 1919