Margery Gill
Illustrator whose bold style reflected modern attitudes to children
Matthew Weaver writing in The Guardian, Thursday December 11 2008

Margery Gill, who has died aged 83, was a prolific and talented illustrator of children's books. She was greatly respected in the publishing industry but neither got, nor sought, the wider recognition she deserved. Her name may be little known, but her drawings, with their unmistakable style, will be familiar to many. She illustrated dozens of stories, poems, and anthologies at a time when children's books were beginning to reach a mass market.

Her lack of recognition was cruelly underlined this year when a 1961 edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess was reissued as a Puffin Classic. Margery's 24 pen-and-ink illustrations, for which her younger daughter modelled, were among her best work and they reprinted well. But on the title page her surname was mistakenly printed as Hill.

Link here for the full obituary.