Thelma Gooch
Thelma Gooch was born in the Midwest in 1895 and died in Arizona in 1973.
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Gooch enjoyed a very successful career as a children's book illustrator. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, she seems to have specialized in illustrating books for girls by women writers of her generation, of whom Clara Ingram Judson is probably the best known. In later years, she illustrated books for younger children, including collections of nursery rhymes and alphabet books. Gooch was sufficiently well known by the 1940s for the New York company Grosset & Dunlap to publish The Thelma Gooch ABC (1941). She continued to work as an illustrator well into the mid-twentieth century.
Thelma Gooch illustrated several books for the Page Company in Boston. These included two volumes in the "Little Cousin" series and Evaleen Stein's When Fairies Were Friendly.
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Gilman, Dorothy Foster. Surprising Antonia. Boston: L. C. Page & Company (Inc.), 1923. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
Hope, Laura Lee. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
Judson, Clara Ingram. Mary Jane's City Home. New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1920. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
Judson, Clara Ingram. Mary Jane in New England. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
Murphy, Emily F. Our Little Canadian Cousin of the Great Northwest. Boston: L. C. Page & Company (Inc.), 1923. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
Whitehill, Dorothy. Phyllis, a Twin. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
