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Niroot Puttapipat a pen and ink and watercolor artist has illustrated three editions of Jane Austen’s novels: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Emma for The Folio Society.

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Longbourn (frontispiece) Pride and Prejudice, Dutton (1976) Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was an American Social Realist Painter and Printmaker, whose contribution of illustrations to E. P. Dutton & Company’s 1976 edition of Pride and Prejudice are quite remarkable. She has been described as “the best female artist America produced aside from Mary Cassatt“, and like Cassatt, [...]

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ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS HAMMOND Over the past 170 years, many have attempted to illustrate Jane Austen’s characters and scenes from her novels, but few have succeeded to complement her intent as well as the late 19th-century artists Chris Hammond. I rather think that Jane Austen would have approved of Miss Hammond. Their lives had similar parallels [...]

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