1896 to 1965
Beryl Irving
Illustrator first, author second, and the reason this imprint exists. The Dawnchild, 1926; Daffy Goes to Sea, 1932; The Family Week-End Book, 1941; and the drawings for Good Food, 1947.
The people behind the books
Authors
Beryl Irving, who wrote three of our books and drew the pictures for a fourth, and her brother P. C. B. Newington, who wrote Good Food. Florence Harrison, Walter Crane and Mrs Molesworth are next.
Interned at Changi and Sime Road
P. C. B. Newington
Philip Campbell Beatson Newington wrote Good Food from memory in the Singapore camps and had it printed at Ipoh in 1947, with drawings by his sister, Beryl Irving. He had been a planter in Malaya before the war.