Illustrations by Eleanor Vere Boyle (original) (raw)

... her importance partly lies in the variety of reproduction methods that were employed in her books. Stylistically she can often produce imagery which possesses a dream-like quality, and is delightful and winning. In short, she is a highly significant figure in the development of work by female Victorian illustrators. — Paul Goldman

Biographical and Critical Introduction

• Eleanor Vere Boyle, 1825-1916: An Overview
• Eleanor Vere Boyle's watercolours, etc
• Eleanor Vere Boyle as an Illustrator

Works

• Title page of Child's Play
• Illustration for Child's Play
• Opening illustration for Tennyson's The May Queen
• Playful cherubs illustrating Tennyson's The May Queen
• "I sleep so sound all night, mother" for Tennyson's The May Queen
• The May Queen's decline in Tennyson's The May Queen
• The sombre last scene of Tennyson's The May Queen
• After Supper Every Night in Beauty and the Beast
• Love is the Magic in Beauty and the Beast
• Tommelise Very Desolate for Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• Borne on the Swallow's Back for Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• Berries for A Garden of Pleasure

Bibliography

Boyle, E. V. Beauty and the Beast. London: Sampson Low, 1875.

_____. Child's Play. London: Addey [1851-52].

_____. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson. London: Sampson Low, 1872.

_____. A Garden of Pleasure. London: Elliot Stock, 1895. Internet Archive. Contributed by the University of California Libraries. Web. 18 August 2015.

Christian, John. Eleanor Vere Boyle. The British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG20608.

de Beaumont, Robin. 'EVB (The Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle): an Account of her Life and Bibliography.' The Imaginative Book Illustration Society Journal: Singular Visions 2 (2002): 935.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928; rpt. New York: Dover, 1975.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 18541870. Ed. George Birbeck Hill. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.

Tennyson, Alfred. The May Queen. London: Sampson Low, 1861.

Additional Resource

Kosic, Corryn. 'Eleanor Vere Boyle.' The Norman Rockwell Museum. www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/Eleanor-vere-boyle

Created 18 June 2020