 Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and "An Old-Fashioned Girl", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline", and Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses".Jessie Willcox Smith was born on September 6, 1863, in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She was the youngest girl born to Charles Henry Smith, an investment broker, and Katherine DeWitt Willcox Smith.