1879 - 1964

Mabel Lucie Attwell was born in London .
She was well known for her illustrations of chubby children and fairies.

She designed advertisment , calenders, posters, postcards and a comic strip called 'wot a life'

Many of these postcards were used to post to soldiers during WW2.

Copyright Valentine & sons ltd. Dundee

They were numbered and on the back was a quotation from the Prime Minister, Churchill.