Jessie Mabel Pritchard Dearmer (née White; 22 March 1872 – 15 July 1915) was an English novelist, dramatist and children's book author/illustrator.

She entered Hubert von Herkomer's art school in 1891,[1] but left the following year to marry the socialist liturgist priest Percy Dearmer.

Dearmer created artwork for Wymps, and Other Fairy Tales and All the Way to Fairyland by Evelyn Sharp and The Story of the Seven Young Goslings by Laurence Housman (1899).

Her autobiography The Difficult Way was published in 1905, and other titles include a historical romance The Orangery: A Comedy of Tears (1904), The Alien Sisters (1908), and Gervase 1909.

[4][5] Three months after her death, her younger son Christopher, a Royal Navy pilot was killed after 10 days of active service in the Dardanelles in October 1915 in the Gallipoli Campaign.