APPLETON, Honor.

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Original drawing for The World's Best Stories for Children: "Oh, They Will All Be Trampled On! They Will All Be Spoiled!" Published in The World's Best Stories for Children, selected by Winifred Biggs, and published in 1930 by T. C. & E. C. Jack, and T. Nelson & Sons, on page 537. The illustration accompanies "The Basket Woman", a story by Maria Edgeworth, set on Chalk Hill, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire.Appleton (1879-1951) was a prolific book illustrator whose work "capture[s] the air of innocence inherent in children without clouding it in sentimentality" (Halpin). The TLS stated that the volume which contained this illustration was "a treasury which may well seem to young readers inexhaustible" (Times Literary Supplement, 29 November 1930, p. 982).

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