Helen Hoppner Coode

Helen Hoppner Coode (c. 1831 - 1915) was an English illustrator, watercolourist and short story writer. She was the first known female contributor to Punch Magazine.

Illustration by Helen Hoppner Coode for 'Little Rogue!' (1860)

Helen Hoppner Coode
Bornc. 1831 (after 1830, before 1834)
Lambeth
Died30 November 1915
Lyme Regis
Known forIllustrator, painter, watercolourist, writer
Illustration by Helen Hoppner Coode for 'Fairy May' (1859)

Biography

Coode was born in Lambeth, London and was the daughter of a barrister.[1] Coode contributed nineteen drawings to Punch Magazine and is recognised as its first woman contributor.[2][3] Her work first appeared in the magazine in November 1859 and continued through to January 1861.[4] These included illuminated letters or small sketches accompanying articles.[5] She signed her illustrations with a monogram.[6] During this time she also contributed illustrations to Once a Week,[7] this included drawings for the poem "Fairy May" written by C. W. Goodhart which was printed in the magazine in 1859.[6] She was a member of the Society of Female Artists and her work was often included in their exhibitions.[8] Coode also had her work exhibited in Manchester, at the British Institution, and at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1882.[7]

Coode published at least one book, which included the short stories The Strange Story of Eugenia, The Necromancer's Hand and Martin Sans-Tête. These were described in Public Opinion (1885) as 'three highly spiced sensational tales by Miss H. H. Coode'.[9]

Awards
  • Royal Academy Exhibition Prize in 1867[10]

Selected works

References
  1. "COODE Helen Hoppner 1834-1915 | Artist Biographies". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. Spielman, M (1895). The History of 'Punch'. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. "Coode, Helen Hoppner". DIGITAL VICTORIAN PERIODICAL POETRY.
  4. Van Remoortel, Marianne (2015), Van Remoortel, Marianne (ed.), "The Fine Art of Satire: Florence and Adelaide Claxton and the Magazines", Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 92–114, doi:10.1057/9781137435996_6, ISBN 978-1-137-43599-6, retrieved 13 November 2021
  5. "Helen Coode (artist) (c. 1834-1915)". Ladies Who Punch. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. HUGHES, LINDA K. (2010). "Inventing Poetry and Pictorialism in Once a Week : A Magazine of Visual Effects". Victorian Poetry. 48 (1): 41–72. ISSN 0042-5206. JSTOR 40601047.
  7. Houfe, Simon (1996). The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors’ Club. p. 97.
  8. "The Society of Female Artists". Athenaeum: 342.
  9. Public Opinion. G. Cole (etc.). 1885.
  10. Nunn, Pamela Gerrish (1987). Victorian Women Artists. The Women's Press. p. 116.
  11. The Academy and Literature. Academy Publishing Company. 1885.
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