found: Weatherley, F. E. Told in the twilight, 1880:title page (M. Ellen Edwards)
found: Chatterwell stories, 1885:page 26 (M.E.E.)
found: NUC pre-56(hdg.: Edwards, Mary Ellen)
found: Little Red Riding Hood, 187-?:title page (M.E. Edwards)
found: Havlice, P.P. Index to artistic biography, 1st suppl., 1981(Edwards, Mary Ellen (Staples); 1839-1908?; English illustrator)
found: Houfe, S. Dictionary. of British book illustrators, 1978(Edwards, Mary Ellen; book illustrator and figure artist; b. 1839; d. ca. 1910)
found: Engen, R.K. Dictionary of Victorian wood engravers, 1985(Edwards, Mary Ellen; prolific 'Sixties School' draughtsman, illustrator, and figure artist; b. Kingston-upon-Thames 11/6/1839; d. ca. 1910)
found: Victorian Web WWW site, May 12, 2016(Mary Ellen Edwards (1838-1934) was one of the most productive and popular artists of the middle of the nineteenth century. She died on 22 December 1934 at the age of ninety-six, although the date of her passing is incorrectly reported in most reference books as 1910. The Times carried an obituary) - http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/edwardsme/cooke.html found: Wikipedia, May 12, 2016(Mary Ellen Edwards ( 9 November 1838 - 22 December 1934), also known as MEE, was an English artist who contributed to many Victorian newspapers and journals, as well being a prolific illustrator of children's books; the daughter of Mary Johnson and Downes Edwards, a farmer and engineer who had a number of successful inventions, she was born on her father's farm in Surbiton; she married, on 13 June 1866, John Freer; they had one son, born in 1867, but John Freer died in 1869; in 1872 she married the artist John Charles Staples, with whom she worked on many projects until his death at the end of the century)
found: Argosy, 1883:volume 36, December, frontispiece (artwork signed M. Ellen Staples)
found: Dickens, Charles. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, 1880:title page (Ellen Edwards)
