Ottilia Adelborg

Eva Ottilia Adelborg (6 December 1855 – 19 March 1936) was a Swedish children's book illustrator, comics artist[1] and author and the founder of a school for lace making.

She was born in Karlskrona, Sweden, the daughter of Bror Jacob Adelborg and Hedvig Catharina af Uhr.

She was the granddaughter of Erik Otto Borgh (1741–1787), a Swedish Army captain who was ennobled under the family name Adelborg by King Gustavus III of Sweden.

[2] Another successful and much reprinted book was Pelle Snygg och barnen i Snaskeby (1896; in English as Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea, 1901).

[2][5] These and other of her early works led to Adelborg being called "the creator of the Swedish picture book for children".

Ottilia Adelborg, 1901.
Page from Prinsarnes blomsteralfabet by Ottilia Adelborg.
Ottilia Adelborg in later life, n.d.