![]() ![]() She left the J L Brisley Charitable Trust, which provides financial assistance to religious charities in London as specified in her will. She wrote and illustrated six collections of Milly-Molly-Mandy, amongst other works.īrisley died in 1978 at the age of 82. ![]() ![]() ![]() Career Īll three sisters illustrated postcards for the publisher Alfred Vivian Mansell & Co., with Nina (who also illustrated Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series) and Ethel becoming quite prolific.īrisley's books were first printed in 1925, and a collection appeared in book form in 1928. She wrote and illustrated the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor. Milly-Molly-Mandy lives in a tiny village in the heart of the countryside, where life is full of everyday adventures Join the little girl in the candy-striped dress as she enjoys her first ever visit to the seaside, goes to a concert and has a picnic with her friends whatever Milly. They studied art firstly at Hastings School of Art, then, following their parents' divorce in 1912 and the subsequent relocation of the girls and their mother to Brixton, at Lambeth School of Art. Joyce Lankester Brisley (6 February 1896 1978) was an English writer. The second of three daughters of George Brisley, a pharmacist, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, Brisley's sisters- Ethel Constance, the eldest, and Nina Kennard, the youngest- were also illustrators. She wrote and illustrated the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor. Joyce Lankester Brisley (6 February 1896 – 1978) was an English writer. ![]()
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