Person

Paul, Evelyn (1883 – 1963)

Title: Paul, Evelyn
Author: Paul, Evelyn (1883 – 1963); Evelyn Paul, census; Evelyn Paul, census
Date: 1883 – 1963
Place of origin: London
Language: English
Profession: Book Illustrator; Children book illustrator
Biographical details: Evelyn Maude Blanche Paul was born on 4 November 1883, at 30 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, in North London. Her father was the portraitist Robert Boyd Paul (1819–1903), and her mother was Annie née McGlashan (born 1858 at Gibraltar), the daughter of a sergeant in the Royal Artillery and Robert Paul's 2nd wife. In her teens, Evelyn attended art school in London and in 1906 entered the Schools of Art National Competition. She continued her studies, and on 1 June 1911 married the artist Alexander George Small (1875-1923), son of William Small (1843-1929), a well-known painter and honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Alexander died twelve years later in 1923 at St Pancras Hospital, London, at the age of 48. Evelyn died of broncho-pneumonia at the same hospital on 29 January 1963.; Career
Work
Her work shows a variety of influences including Gothic, Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts. Most significantly, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti has been identified as one of Paul's major influences. She collaborated mostly with the publisher George Harrap. The Westminister Gazette noticed 'Messrs. Ilarrap have evidently discovered an illustrator who pleases them in Paul, who can certainly turn her knowledge of the decorative arts of all the ages to quite respectable account'.
Selected publications: (1912) Myths and legends of Japan F. Hadland Davis, with thirty-two full-page illustrations by Evelyn Paul. London : George G. Harrap & Company.

(1914) Stories of Egyptian gods & heroes, by F. H. Brooksbank ... illustrated by Evelyn Paul. Crowell. New York

(1916) The new life by Dante Alighieri ; translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; pictured by Evelyn Paul ; with music [of one song] by Alfred Mercer. London : George G. Harrap; The New Life by Dante Alighieri; (1898) Stories from Dante by Susan Cunnington ... ; with illustrations in colour by Evelyn Paul. London : George G. Harrap; Stories from Dante; Stories from Dante; (1921) Stories from Dante by Susan Cunnington ... ; with illustrations in colour by Evelyn Paul. New York : F.A. Stokes company.; Stories from Dante (Canadian edn.)
Relation: Anglophone women writers