Edna wrote, drew, painted, mothered and farmed as her principle activities. She was equally expressive in sketching, etching and lithography as the illustrations above show. Unfortunately her execution of designs in all these media was affected by a problem of intermittent but acute arthritis in her hands which finally stopped Edna's creative output just after the Second World War. A further tragedy was the loss of much of two decades of work kept in her studio in Gray's Inn which was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941. What remained, after the enemy action, was left exposed to the elements and later pulped for re-use as a wartime resource. Despite these setbacks there is much of Edna's art in public and private collections around the world, along with considerable biographical material. Fortunately there is more than enough of Edna's fine work available to present the long overdue and representative first illustrated book on her art, just published in 2026, shown here on the homepage. It is also the purpose of this website to introduce the work of this neglected romantic genius online to a wider world.

Edna's place in British Romanic Art

Edna's work in public collections

Edna's work can be presented in several categories:-

Early student work.

Figures and family.

Illustrations to Wuthering Heights.

Landscape and still-life.

Poem-Pictures.

Poems.

Autobiography, manuscripts and letters.

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