52 Published BooksHilda Boswell
Hilda Boswell (1903-1976) was a British illustrator and writer of children’s books.
She studied at Hornsey School of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic. In the 1930s, she illustrated comics for Amalgamated Press, before moving into illustrating and writing children's books from the 1940s.
She is well-known for illustrating Enid Blyton's 'flower' and 'holiday' books in the 1940s and 1950s, an edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, and her own treasuries.
Her preferred medium was watercolour, and she was influenced by Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway and Arthur Rackham.
