Helen stratton

"The Arabian Nights" Illustrated by Helen Stratton

The Little Mermaid illustration Helen Stratton, circa 1908.

In her beautiful memoir The Farawy Nearby, Rebecca Solnit examines a crisis-filled period of her life during which she was sent a hundred pounds of apricots from a tree at her childhood home: "The mountain of apricots that briefly occupied...

Pygmalion was a sculptor of marble statues. One day, he carved a woman who was so beautiful that he fell in love with her. He spent his days gazing at the statue and, at night, he slept on the floor of his studio, curled around the feet of the statue. He disdained all other women and loved only his statue. Driven mad with love, Pygmalion decided to implore the goddess Aphrodite for help. He went to the goddess's temple, bearing many gifts to offer in sacrifice. "O most powerful goddess," he…

Lorelei ~ A Book of Myths - Helen Stratton

Image shared from the British Library’s Flickr photostream in the Children’s Book Illustration set. The poem is a screen shot from the downloaded PDF of the entire book shared by the Br…

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Helen Stratton ~ The Lily of Life London: Hodder and Stoughton ~ 1913 The Lily of Life, by Marie, Crown Princess of Roumania, was published in 1913 by Hodder and Stoughton. Queen Marie was a prolific writer. She wrote several famous works, including The Dreamer of Dreams and The Stealers of Light, both illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Little has been written about Helen Stratton. One source lists her birth year as approximately 1867, and her date of death as June 4, 1961, at the age of 95, and a…