Joyce Dennys, auteur et illustrateur

Joyce Dennys est un auteur et une illustratrice anglaise qui a vécu de 1893 à 1991.

    

Une petite biographie (merci Goodreads) :

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JOYCE DENNYS was born 14th August 1883 in India. The Dennys family relocated to England in 1886. Dennys enjoyed drawing lessons throughout her schooling and later enrolled at Exeter Art School. In 1919 Dennys married Tom Evans, a young doctor, and they moved to Australia. While living in New South Wales, Dennys's work was constantly in print and exhibited in many galleries. In 1922 Joyce became a mother and moved back to England. Her drawing took second place to the domestic and social duties of a doctor's wife and mother and she became increasingly frustrated. She voiced her frustrations through the character of Henrietta, a heroine she created for an article for Sketch. Henrietta was to become so important to Dennys that she once remarked, ‘When I stopped doing the piece after the war, I felt quite lost. Henrietta was part of me. I never quite knew where I ended and she began.' These letters were later compiled to form Henrietta's War, first published by Andre Deutsch in 1985

Je n'ai pas lu sa série des Henrietta mais j'aime beaucoup son travail d'illustratrice.

Elle a travaillé pour la magasin Liberty de Londres, illustré des romans et des journaux.

Ces illustrations sont très jolies!