Edith Holden
Edith Holden was a part-time teacher, as well as an illustrator of children’s books. She died trying to reach a branch of chestnut buds when she fell into the river Thames and drowned. After she died, one of her notebooks was published. Called “The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady,” it has her notes and illustrations of flora and fauna and it’s an incredibly popular work of literature to date.