Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. Attwell was born in Mile End, London, 4 June 1879, the sixth child of butcher Augustus Attwell and his wife Emily Ann. She was educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school. She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art, and but left to develop
Peggy Parnass Peggy Parnass Ruth Peggy Sophie Parnass (born 11 October 1934) is a German-Swedish actress, columnist, court reporter, short story writer and non-fiction writer who now lives in Hamburg. Born in Hamburg in 1934, she was the daughter of Herta Emanuel, who was half Portuguese, and Simon, a Polish Jew. Both were sent by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp where they died in 1942. Parnass tells the story of her childhood in "Unter die Haut" (1983) and in "Kindheit" (2014), illustrated by Tita do Rêgo Silva. She and her little brother Gady had been sent to Sweden in 1939.