Joyce Lankester Brisley

Joyce Lankester Brisley (6 February 1896 – 1978) was an English writer. She wrote and illustrated the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor.

Early life, family and education 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. 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.

Publications Milly-Molly-Mandy Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (1928) Milly-Molly-Mandy Again (1929) Milly-Molly-Mandy and Co. (1932) More of Milly-Molly-Mandy (1948) Further Doings of Milly-Molly-Mandy (1955) Milly-Molly-Mandy and Billy Blunt (1967)

Novels (non-series) Hurrah for the Trains (1919) Jolly Days At the Zoo (1921) Bunchy (1937) (also published in The Joyce Lankester Brisley Book) "Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse" (1938) The Adventures of Purl and Plain (1941) Another Bunchy book (1951) Children of Bible Days (1970) The New Testament Story (1973) Model Trains (1979) Marigold in Godmother's House (2001) (originally published in The Joyce Lankester Brisley Book)

Collections The Dawn Shops, and Other Stories (1942) The Joyce Lankester Brisley Book (1981)

Non-fiction My Bible Book (1964) From the Exile to Christ: A Historical Introduction to Palestinian Judaism (1964)