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Other Dumpy titles included one by her father and two by Mary Tourtel, pre-Rupert.  She then produced larger-format books such as The Wonder-Voyage and A Trip to Fairyland, and provided illustrations for books by others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile her holiday sketches of old buildings started seeing print, eventually blossoming into a long secondary career of illustrated articles.  For adults she decorated works such F.J. Harvey Darton’s A Parcel of Kent, her brother’s first novel Stand to Arms, and E.H. Young’s 1930 best-seller Miss Mole. However, she remained devoted to children’s art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the Twenties and Thirties Ruth contributed to a number of children’s annuals and miscellanies for Blackie, Collins, Nelson, Tuck and others.  At times she provided both text and pictures for stories or articles. However, her run of children’s illustration was ended in 1939 by the outbreak of World War II.  Ruth’s market was shattered, and so was her whole way of life.  A memoir states: “She went to live with relations in Sussex.  There, she did a lot of voluntary war work, became President of a Women’s Institute, did map drawing, for the War Agricultural Committee in Lewes, and spoke for the Ministry of Information.”  Typically, a 1941 lecture of hers was “Some of London’s Bombed Buildings.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater she resumed her work for periodicals, and as the war ended she began producing a quartet of slim illustrated topographical books, all well-received.  Evidently she suffered a sudden heart attack, being found dead on 7th December 1950.  Her wartime struggles seem to have deepened her appreciation of liberty; the first chapter of A Sussex Highway is entitled “The Beginning of the Road”, its main illustration dated shortly after VE Day. The final chapter of her final book commemorates Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cobb-ruth-1878-1950-children-with-rabbits","title":"Cobb, Ruth (1878-1950) - Children with Rabbits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis image of children playing with rabbits is taken from The Wonder Book of Pets from the 1940s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5010 pixels wide by 3792 pixels tall.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"Ruth Cobb\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/cobb-ruth\"\u003eRuth Cobb\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641420157258,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Cobb_Ruth_1878-1950_-TheWonderBookofPets1940s-ChildrenwithRabbits_main.jpg?v=1747052075"},{"product_id":"cobb-ruth-1878-1950-little-boys-of-other-lands","title":"Cobb, Ruth (1878-1950) - 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