Alan Odle

Alan Elsden Odle (1888–1948) was an English illustrator, husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.. His style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide, Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, and The Mimiambs of Herondas. He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow, other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916). He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922–25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy.