William Rainey

Early life

Exhibitions

Marriage and family

• Florence Harriet Bennett, who was his executor at his death in 1936
• Edith Elsie Rainey, who died as a teenager
• George William Bennett Rainey, Shown as assisting his father in the 1911 census.
• Victor Thomas James Rainey, a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment, killed at Ypres in the First World War.

  Works

Magazine illustration

• Atalanta
• Black and White
• The Boy's Own Paper
• Cassell's Family Magazine
• Chums
• The Girl's Own Paper
• Good Words
• The Graphic
• The Harmsworth Magazine
• The Illustrated London News
• Little Folks
• The Ludgate Monthly
• The Penny Magazine
• Punch
• The Quiver
• The Sphere
• Springtime
• The Strand Magazine
• Sunday at Home
• The Temperance Monthly
• Young England
• The Windsor Magazine

  Examples of magazine illustration

Book illustration

• William Adams, an Anglican cleric who wrote Christian allegories.
• Helen Atteridge, author of children's fiction.
• Harold Avery, who wrote school stories for both boys and girls.
• May Baldwin, a British author of girl's school stories.
• F. S. Brereton, who wrote tales of Imperial heroism for children.
• Maggie Browne, Margaret Andrewes née Hamer, an English an author of both non-fiction and fiction for children.
• Ella Lyman Cabot, an American educator, lecturer, and author.
• Edith Carrington, an English animal rights activist who began to write books on animals from 1889.
• Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton, an English poet, short story writer, critic, playwright, and author of juvenile fiction.
• Harry Collingwood, a writer of boys' adventure fiction, usually in a nautical setting.
• Samuel Rutherford Crockett, a prolific Scottish novelist, who wrote more than 60 books.
• Daniel Defoe, who wrote Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year among other works.
• Charles Dickens, for whom Jellicoe illustrated posthumous reissues.
• Sarah Doudney, an English poet, short story writer, best known for writing hymns and juvenile fiction.
• Henry Drummond, a Scottish evangelist, biologist, lecturer, and writer.
• George Manville Fenn, a prolific author of fiction for young adults.
• Amy Le Feuvre, a prolific author of books for children with a Christian message.
• John Finnemore, who wrote books and stories for younger readers, as well as school textbooks.
• Ernest Glanville, a South African author, who wrote seventeen historical novels, but is best known for his many short stories.
• Evelyn Everett Green, a prolific English novelist who wrote about 350 book, beginning first with pious stories, then historical fiction for girls, and eventually moved to adult romantic fiction.
• G. A. Henty, a prolific writer of boy's adventure fiction, often set in a historical context, who had himself served in the military and been a war correspondent.
• Emily Sarah Holt, who wrote mainly on historical themes, often with a strong Protestant religious element.
• T. T. Jeans, a Royal Navy medical officer who wrote juvenile fiction to show boys what life in the modern navy was really like.
• E. C. Kenyon, Edith Caroline Kenton, published more than 50 novels, mainly juvenile fiction, and mostly with the Religious Tract Society as well as translations, biographies, and tracts.
• Skelton Kuppord, Sir John Adams a Scottish educationalist.
• Mary Cornwall Legh, a British Anglican missionary.
• Robert Leighton, a Scottish journalist, editor, and a prolific author of juvenile fiction and non-ficiton books about dogs and their care.
• Emma Leslie, Emma Boultwood, wrote more than 100 books, mostly juvenile and historical titles with a Christian message.
• Charles Lever, an Irish author, who adventure fiction was based in part of his own experience.
• Robert Maclauchlan Macdonald, a Scottish traveller, prospector, and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society who wrote juvenile fiction.
• Bessie Marchant, who wrote adventure fiction featuring young female heroines.
• L. T. Meade, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, a prolific Irish writer of stories for girls.
• Mary Russell Mitford, an English author and dramatist who when young, had known Jane Austen.
• Mrs Molesworth, n English writer of children's stories, who also wrote adult novels under a pseudonym.
• Ruth Ogden, Fannie Ogden Ide, an American author of juvenile fiction.
• James Macdonald Oxley, a Canadian writer of juvenile fiction.
• D. H. Parry, David Harold Parry, who also wrote as Morton Pike and Captain Eilton Blacke, a prolific English writer of serial stories and other juvenile fiction, wrote for Chums from 1892 to 1935, from a family of painters and a painter himself, was an expert on the Napoleonic Wars.
• Hugh St. Leger, an English writer of juvenile fiction for boys, mostly adventure stories in a nautical setting.
• Jessie Saxby, a Scottish suffragist, folklorist, and author of juvenile fiction.
• Evelyn Sharp, an English suffragist and an author, who was well known for her juvenile fiction.
• Helen Shipton, wrote children's fiction with a moral, almost exclusively for the SPCK, as well as some plays in later life.
• Gordon Stables, a Scottish medical doctor in the Royal Navywho wrote boys' adventure fiction.
• H. de Vere Stacpoole, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, a prolific Irish author, now best known as the author of The Blue Lagoon.
• Edward Step, who wrote extensively on botany, zoology and mycology.
• Herbert Strang, a pair of writers producing adventure fiction for boys, both historical and modern-day.
• William Makepeace Thackeray, a British novelist, author and illustrator born in India, best known for Vanity Fair.
• Percy Westerman, a prolific author of boys' adventure fiction, many with military and naval themes.
• Frederick Whishaw, a Russian-born British historian, poet, musician, and author of juvenile fiction.
• Charlotte Mary Yonge, who became a Sunday School teacher aged seven and remained one for the next seventy one years, she wrote to promote her religious views.

  Examples

Books written and illustrated

Later life