Woodward, Alice B.
Woodward, Alice B. (1862–1951),English illustrator whose medium was pen and ink. It is quite likely that she was influenced by Charles Robinson, a decorative book illustrator noted for his personal application of Art Nouveau and particularly for his black‐and‐white illustrations of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse (1896). Both were illustrators of the Dent Banbury Cross series. Woodward's black‐and‐white drawings for Banbury Cross and Other Nursery Rhymes (1895), Edith Hall's Adventures in Toyland (1897), and Evelyn Sharp's Round the World to Nymphland (1902) are reflective of the Art Nouveau style of the time. The cover illustration for Sheila E. Braine's Princess of Hearts also bears Art Nouveau motifs, flowers, and embellishments, and, as was characteristic of publishers' bindings...
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