John Milton's Paradise Lost is, after the Bible, the most widely illustrated book in European history. It is also, arguably if controversially, one of the earliest great feminist poems – a poem that, as Joseph Wittreich demonstrated in 1987, has given heart and hope to three centuries of women readers. Yet since 1688, although nearly 200 artists have tried to bring Milton's epic to visual life – among them such well-known figures as William Blake, Henry Fuseli, John Martin, and Gustav Doré – all but four of those artists have been men. Of the four woman artists who have responded in some way to the poem, three have worked during the twentieth century. American artist Carlotta Petrina (1901–97) produced a set of sixteen pencil drawings for a Limited Editions Club issue of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which was published in 1936. Working at the same time, but with no knowledge of her American contemporary, Englishwoman Mary Elizabeth Groom (1903–58) produced a set of nineteen wood engravings for the Golden Cockerel Press's rare ten-book edition of Paradise Lost, published in honor of the coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth in 1937.