Rachel Marshall

Rachel Marshall was born in London. In 1910 she drew a few political cartoons and in 1912 she joined the Central School. A close friend of Vivien Gribble, she was one of the earliest pupils of Noel Rooke, who particularly admired her work. Two children's books, illustrated largely with coloured line drawings, were printed by the Book Production department in 1913 and 1915 under J. H. Mason. Rooke introduced her to the publisher Chatto & Windus, for which firm she produced wood-engraved illustrations to several books, mostly written by her husband, David Garnett. "Lady into Fox" (1922) became a best seller and was the first commercially published book with modern wood engravings to achieve such popularity. By 1931, owing to family commitments she ceased to illustrate. She succumbed to illness in the late 1930s and died in 1940.
Author: JS

Rachel ‘Ray’ Marshall joined the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1912. She had previously drawn cartoons. Her work was submitted by the School for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society's tenth exhibition in 1912.
Author: Ruth Sykes-2016