Webb, Marion St. John, -1930

Marion St. John Webb (died 1930) was a British writer and illustrator of children's literature. Public information about her is limited, and the details of her life are now difficult to trace, yet she was known in the early twentieth century for her picture stories. Two of her works are held in this collection, Knock Three Times! and The Girls of Chequertrees, and other picture stories such as The Littlest One have also come down to us. She wrote mainly for young readers, and was skilled at pairing light narrative with illustrations to create a reading atmosphere close to a child's sense of fun; the interplay of pictures and text is a distinctive feature of her work. Her books held a place in the children's reading of her time and are still mentioned by scholars interested in early British children's literature.