Edith F. Butler

Illustration by Edith F. Butler from the book, Wee Ann Edith F. Butler was an American artist and illustrator, mainly of children's books, magazines, and advertisements. She grew up in Lynn and attended schools in the town.

By the 1950s, Butler had retired from her children's book career. Her art became a hobby, and she took up various crafts that were instead shared with friends and family, including lino printing and rug-making. After living in Swampscott for 65 years, she then moved in with her son in Whitman, Massachusetts in 1969. She died in a nursing home in Rockland, Massachusetts, after a long illness, on August 28, 1975. She was 86 years old. Little Friend Lydia (c. 1920), written by Ethel Calvert Phillips Pretty Polly Perkins (c. 1925), written by Ethel Calvert Phillips Stone's Silent Reading, book two (c. 1925) Bolenius Fourth Reader (revised, c. 1929) written by Emma Miller Bolenius, co-illustrated by Mabel B. Hill.