Quote of the day
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Rose Fyleman
Born: 1877
Died: 1957 (aged 80)
Bio: Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There are fairies at the bottom of our garden was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.
Known for:
- A Fairy Went a-Marketing (1918)
- Fairies and chimneys (1918)
- The fairy flute (1921)
- The Rose Fyleman fairy book (1923)
- Fairies and Friends (1926)