Muriel Dawson (1897-1974) Born in New Zealand to Scottish parents, but moved back to the UK in 1913. She illustrated a number of books, and contributed hundreds of covers for weekly magazine Woman's Pictorial.

Joyce Lankester Brisley (1896-1978) English writer. She wrote and illustrated the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor.

L. Kate Deal I cannot find any information about her, except "a published author and an illustrator of children's books."

Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender.

Hideko Mizuno (born in 1939) One of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists.[1] She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1955 with Akakke Kōma Pony, a Western story with a tomboy heroine.