Elenore Abbott

[4] Abbott, known for her book illustrations, was also a landscape and portrait painter and scenic designer,[5] including work for Hedgerow Theatre's production of The Emperor Jones.

[4][6] Abbott created illustrations for books, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Johann David Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson, Louisa May Alcott's Old Fashioned Girl, and the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

[4] Elenore Abbott loves her fairy tales, and no child who receives such a book will be disappointed... Elenore Abbott is not on the surface a clever artist; her active, vigorous yet idealist's mind is brought into subjection and guides the long sensitive fingers that hold the water color brush.Abbott was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club[5] and Philadelphia's The Plastic Club, an organization established by women artists to promote "Art for art's sake".

As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations.

[8] Artists "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplifying this emerging type through their own lives."