That book, The Family from One End Street, was rejected by several publishers who deemed it "not suitable for the young", but eventually published by Frederick Muller in 1937. She remains best known for her work of the previous year: writing and illustrating a story book that dealt with the social conditions of the English working class, which was exceptional in children's literature. Garnett also completed a book of drawings with commentary called Is It Well With The Child? (1938).
To that end she worked on a 40-foot mural at the Children's House in Bow, founded by sisters Doris and Muriel Lester. She determined to show up some of the evils of poverty and extreme class division in the United Kingdom, especially in contemporary London. Garnett was commissioned to illustrate Evelyn Sharp's 1927 book The London Child and the work left her "appalled by conditions prevailing in the poorer quarters of the world's richest city". She then went to the Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and eventually exhibited at the Tate Gallery, the Lefevre Gallery and the New English Art Club. Garnett was born in Worcestershire and educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester. She is best known for The Family from One End Street, a 1937 children's novel that features a large, small-town, working-class family. Eve Garnett (9 January 1900 – 5 April 1991) was an English writer and illustrator.
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