Lilian Gask

Lilian Fanny Gask (1865, Marylebone[1]–17 November 1942, Camberwell[2]) was an author of children's books.

She was the eldest of six children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis.

[4] In 1891, she was recorded in the England and Wales Census as being employed as a "pupil nurse" in London.

She frequently collaborated with Dorothy Hardy, a noted animal and equine illustrator.

But they are pleasantly written, and the illustrations, by Mr. Patten Wilson, are spirited and delicate.

Lilian Gask's " Stories About Bears " (London: George C. Harrap, 1916) as issued in 1925 by the New York publisher Thomas Y. Crowell.
"The Three Bold Pirates" by E. Stuart Hardy (sister of the illustrator Dorothy Hardy ) and Lilian Gask, one of the "Little Mother Stories" presumably published in 1909. The book is exquisitely rare today with only four known extant copies.