Diantha W. Horne

Diantha Williams Horne was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, around 1879. She married local architect George F. Marlowe in 1909. She died in Framingham in 1966.

Diantha Horne had a successful career as an illustrator, particularly with the Boston publishers L. C. Page and Dana Estes. She illustrated several books in Page's "Little Cousin" series, as well as books of children's stories by various authors. Among the books illustrated by this artist, probably the best known is Pussy Black-Face by Canadian writer and animal rights advocate Margaret Marshall Saunders, which was published by the Page Company in 1913. Diantha Horne supplied the illustrations for Evaleen Stein's Little Shepherd of Provence.

View more books illustrated by Diantha W. Horne: 

Cheever, Harriet A. Lord Dolphin. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1903. Retrieved from the Library of Congress. 

Hopkins, William J. The Sandman: His Sea Stories. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1908. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Nixon-Roulet, Mary F. Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1908. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Saunders, Marshall. Pussy Black-Face, or: The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1913. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Squires, Grace. Peaseblossom and Mustardseed. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1906. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

Front cover of "A Little Shepherd of Provence."

Endpaper of "A Little Shepherd of Provence."

Endpaper of "A Little Shepherd of Provence."

"Little Jean Favette was in a brown study."

"The flock loitered along in the soft June twilight."

"Lifting up the lantern, took a step toward the corner."

"Coming across the field he saw a strange man."

"In the great hall they met the Lady Azalais."

"All the while they kept climbing up and up."