Capel Rowley (1862-1935) was a Chicago-based artist and writer. He
illustrated Margaret Homes Bates’ 1894 love story
Shylock’s
Daughter as well as Grace Wilbur’s 1895 novel A
Mormon’s Wife. Rowley also wrote short stories, such as Corralled by Fire (1893) for The Los
Angeles Times and Trapper Tom’s Robber for
the Philadelphia Inquirer in the same year.