Blanche Fisher Wright

Blanche Fisher Wright Laite[1] (1887 – 1971) was an American children's book illustrator active in the 1910s.[2] She is best known for illustrating The Real Mother Goose, published in 1916 by Rand McNally.
She married actor Charles Laite and in 1925 they fostered Gordon Laite who became a children's book illustrator in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]
Illustrated Works
- The Goody-Naughty Book, by Sarah Cory Rippey (Rand McNally, 1913)
- The Real Mother Goose (Rand McNally & Co., 1916)
- The Natural Method Readers: A Second Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1915)
- The Natural Method Readers: A Third Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1916)
- The Natural Method Readers: A Fourth Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917)
- The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Leroy F. Jackson (Rand McNally & Co, 1918)
- Tommy Snooks and Other Mother Goose Rhymes (Rand McNally & Co., c. 1916)
As Blanche Fisher Laite
- Everychild: A Story Which the Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old, by Louis Dodge (C. Scribner's Sons, 1921)
- A Journey to Health Land, by J. Mace Andress and Annie Turner Andress (Ginn & Co., 1924)
References
- ↑Field, Walter Taylor (1928). A Guide to Literature for Children. Ginn. p. 23. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- 12Waldrep, Mary Carolyn (2012). "Blanche Fisher Wright". Women Illustrators of the Golden Age. Courier Corp. pp. 103–108. ISBN 9780486131887. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
External links
- Works by Blanche Fisher Wright at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Blanche Fisher Wright at the Internet Archive
- 171 scanned images from The Real Mother Goose
Categories:
- 1887 births
- 1971 deaths
- American children's book illustrators
- American women children's book illustrators
- 20th-century American illustrators
- Illustrator stubs
