Millicent Sowerby

GS 's next sister, Amy Millicent Sowerby (born just a year after her, on 1 November 1877), became a well-known illustrator of children's books and picture postcards. Millicent shared Githa's home until the latter married...

Githa Sowerby's first full-length play, Rutherford and Son, was received in 1912 as a work of major importance. After this initial success, however, she produced only a handful of plays, only one more of...

GS published through J. M. Dent her first book of verse for children, The Wise Book, with illustrations by her sister Millicent Sowerby .

GS published two more children's books this year, The Bumbletoes and Childhood, both illustrated by Millicent Sowerby .

GS published a children's version of the Arabian Nights, entitled Little Stories for Little People, and illustrated by her sister Millicent Sowerby .

Other books for children, besides those which continued to augment GS 's best-known series, followed with Millicent 's illustrations in 1912, 1913 (a retelling of Cinderella), 1919, 1925, and 1934 (a children's play entitled The Policeman's Whistle).

GS and her sister Millicent moved to London to begin independent life in a small flat when her parents and two other unmarried sisters settled in Oxfordshire.

About twenty-five years after most of her books for children were published, GS collaborated with Natalie Joan on two more children's books, The Glad Book and a new version of The Gay Book, both...

Before she turned her talents to drama, GS published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby , who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll 's Alice's...