Lilian Gask's "Stories About Bears" (London: George C. Harrap, 1916) as issued in 1925 by the New York publisher Thomas Y. Crowell.
"The Three Bold Pirates" by E. Stuart Hardy (sister of the illustrator Dorothy Hardy) and Lilian Gask, one of the "Little Mother Stories" presumably published in 1909. The book is exquisitely rare today with only four known extant copies.

Lilian Fanny Gask (1865, Marylebone[1]–17 November 1942, Camberwell[2]) was an author of children's books. She was the eldest of six children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis.[3] Her brother, Arthur Gask, was also a writer.[4]

In 1891, she was recorded in the England and Wales Census as being employed as a "pupil nurse" in London.[5]

In 1904, her first book, Dog Tales, was published. This was the first of about thirty books published during her lifetime. She frequently collaborated with Dorothy Hardy, a noted animal and equine illustrator.

In a review of True Stories about Horses published in The Spectator it was stated that "some of Miss Lilian Gask's 'True Stories about Horses' are almost incredible, and all are gently sentimental. But they are pleasantly written, and the illustrations, by Mr. Patten Wilson, are spirited and delicate."[6]

Bibliography

Compiled from entries in the catalogue of the British Library[7] and Who's Who in Literature, 1927 edition[8]

References

  1. ^ "Lilian Fanny Gask". England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920. 1865. Retrieved 1 March 2014 – via familysearch.org.
  2. ^ New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors accessed 24 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Charles Gask". England and Wales Census, 1881. 1881. Retrieved 1 March 2014 – via familysearch.org.
  4. ^ "Gask, Arthur Cecil (1869–1951)". Biography - Arthur Cecil Gask - Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ((cite book)): |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Lilian Fanny Gask, 1891". England and Wales Census. 1891. Retrieved 1 March 2014 – via familysearch.org.
  6. ^ The Spectator 23 October 1915, page 23, accessed 1 March 2014
  7. ^ "Explore the British Library".
  8. ^ "Who's Who In Literature". Internet Archive. 1927. p. 163.