NY Times article "ART IN THE HOLIDAY BOOKS" on December 15, 1893 refers to the author as Miss L. N. Badenoch.
Full name: Elizabeth Nichol Badenoch. The illustrator is her sister, Margaret Jemima Duncan Badenoch. Reference: London gazette 1928 I have looked up birth and death notices and census forms of the two sisters, neither married, lived and died together. Father Rev. George Roy Badenoch. Living on independent means in Kensington, London in 1901. Zoeannl (talk) 11:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)