Rose
O'Neill,
the daughter of a book
dealer, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1874. Rose won a
children's art contest at 13 and began weekly cartoon series for the
Omaha
World Herald.
Her cartoons appeared in various national magazines and during the
1890s worked as a political cartoonist for Puck.
O'Neill moved to England where designed and illustrated posters and
postcards for the British suffrage movement.
During the First World War she returned to the
United States, where she became active in the
campaign for women's rights. Rose
O'Neill died in 1944.
Rose O'Neill, postcard (c. 1915)
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