While at Drexel, Green met the illustrators Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith, and they became life-long friends. The three were jointly awarded a commission to do a mural, and in 1900, they began to live and work together at the Red Rose Inn, in Villanova, Pennsylvania, to escape the distractions and intrusions at their studio in Philadelphia. Pyle nicknamed them "The Red Rose Girls." Starting in 1901, Green signed and exclusive contract with "Harper's Magazine." She was the first woman staff member, and worked for them for twenty-three years. In 1906 "the girls" moved to a new house and studio, Cogslea, in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. In 1911, Green married Huger Elliott, director of the Rhode Island School of Design, continuing her work into the 1920s. Elizabeth Shippen Green's illustrated for nineteen book, including "Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare," "The Five Little Pigs", "The Book of the Child", and "A Child's Garden of Verses." Huger Elliott died in 1948, and in 1951, she returned to live with her artist friends, and died in 1954.
While at Drexel, Green met the illustrators Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith, and they became life-long friends. The three were jointly awarded a commission to do a mural, and in 1900, they began to live and work together at the Red Rose Inn, in Villanova, Pennsylvania, to escape the distractions and intrusions at their studio in Philadelphia. Pyle nicknamed them "The Red Rose Girls." Starting in 1901, Green signed and exclusive contract with "Harper's Magazine." She was the first woman staff member, and worked for them for twenty-three years. In 1906 "the girls" moved to a new house and studio, Cogslea, in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. In 1911, Green married Huger Elliott, director of the Rhode Island School of Design, continuing her work into the 1920s. Elizabeth Shippen Green's illustrated for nineteen book, including "Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare," "The Five Little Pigs", "The Book of the Child", and "A Child's Garden of Verses." Huger Elliott died in 1948, and in 1951, she returned to live with her artist friends, and died in 1954.
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