Phyllis Chase

A schoolfriend of Enid Blyton at St. Christopher's School in Beckenham, Chase and Blyton reunited several years after leaving school at a garden party in 1920 and began collaborating.^[1] She is best known for being the illustrator of Blyton initial books such as Child Whispers (1922) and Real Fairies: Poems,^[2] but illustrated many of Blyton's short stories which appeared in newspapers and magazines (such as those of publisher Cassell^[3]) throughout the 1920s.^[4] Chase also illustrated Blyton's Pinkity's Pranks and Other Nature Fairy Tales with A. E. Jackson and The Nursery Book (1927), among many others.^[5] She later married Felix Samuel in Sussex, who died in 1967. In 1975 Chase was interviewed on BBC Radio.