Alan Odle (1888–1948)

Author of Candide

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Candide (1759) — Illustrator, some editions — 23,037 copies, 344 reviews

The Last Voyage (1931) — Illustrator, some editions — 5 copies

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Legal name: Odle, Alan Elsden
Birthdate: 1888
Date of death: 1948
Gender: male
Occupations: illustrator
Organizations: The Gypsy (contributor)
The Golden Hind (1922-1925 | contributor)
Vanity Fair (US version | contributor)
The Studio (contributor)
Argosy (UK version | contributor)
Relationships: Odle, Edwin Vincent (brother)
Richardson, Dorothy Miller (wife|1917|his death|1948)
Houghton, Claude (friend and correspondent)
John, Augustus (artistic circle)
Epstein, Jacob (artistic circle)
Lewis, Wyndham (artistic circle)
Short biography: "Alan Elsden Odle (1888-1948) was an English illustrator, remembered today as the husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson (m. 1917). His grotesque and subversive style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide (G. Routledge, 1922), Mark Twain's 1601: a Tudor fireside conversation, a salute to scatology and Elizabethan manners (London: printed for subscribers only, 1936), and The Mimiambs of Herondas. He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and flow (London: John Lane, 1932), other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916)." (after Wikipedia).
Nationality: England
Places of residence: London, England (summers | 1917-1939)
Cornwall, England (winters | 1917-1939 | permanently | 1940-1948)
Associated Place (for map): England