Ethel Franklin Betts
Illustrator
(1877 - 1959)
Ethel Franklin Betts studied with Howard Pyle and illustrated several children’s books. Her work also appeared in magazines. Her older sister was the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts.
Bibliography
A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)
Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.
While the Heart Beats Young (1906)
A collection of sentimental poems.
Read online at archive.org.