Evelyn Whitaker (1857 - 1903) was a British woman novelist. Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting 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. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the 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. " Sunday school " is the generic name for many different types of Religious education pursued on Sundays by various denominations 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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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
- 1892
- Baby John
- 1892
- Boston: Roberts Brothers
- 1892
- Pomona
- 1894
- My Honey
- 1895
- London: A. D. Innes
- Boston: Roberts Brothers
- 1895
- Don
- 1895
- Belle
- 1898
- W. & R. Chambers
- Boston: Little, Brown
- 1898
- Rob
- 1898
- W. & R. Chambers
- 1898
- Tom's Boy
- 1900
- Lassie
- 1901
- W. & R. Chambers
- 1901
- Faithful
- 1902
- Boston: Little, Brown
- 1902
- Gay
- 1903
- W. & R. Chambers
- 1903
- For the Fourth Time of Asking
Although sometimes attributed to her, Evelyn Whitaker is not the author of Gilly Flower (1889).
Publishers
Major themes
Illustrators
Books by Evelyn Whitaker were illustrated by the following artists:
- R. The Henry Altemus Company was a publishing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U 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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