- Trekkie Parsons
Trekkie (Ritchie) Parsons (1902 - 1995) was a British artist and lithographer, wife of Ian Parsons, who became the close friend of
Leonard Woolf afterVirginia Woolf 's death.Author and illustrator of "Bells across the Sand A Book of Rhymes with Pictures" published by her husband's firm Chatto & Windus in 1944(?) lithographed throughout, printed by Chiswick Press, same style and size as Puffin Picture Books. She also illustrated, and designed the cover for, "The Three Rings" by Barbara Baker (Hogarth Press, 1944). Her lithographic technique is in the style of Barnett Freedman.
External links
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0712664734 "Love Letters: Leonard Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, 1941-1968", ISBN 0-71266-473-4]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950729/ai_n13997803 Obituary in The Independent (London)]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1857504,00.html From "Leonard Woolf: A Biography" by Victoria Glendinning, Nov. 2006, ISBN 0-74324-653-5]
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