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Her flower fairy paintings, in particular, were driven by the Victorian popularity of fairies and fairy stories. Cicely Mary Barker published her first Flower Fairies book in 1923. [ 3 ] She received £25 for Flower Fairies of the Spring , a collection of twenty-four paintings and illustrations.
Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, England. [2] She suffered from epilepsy as a child and remained physically delicate for most of her life. She was unable to go to school, so she was educated at home and spent much of her time on her own, reading and drawing.
Margaret Winifred Tarrant (19 August 1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s.
Amelia Jane Murray (1800–1896) or Lady Oswald, was a Victorian fairy artist from the Isle of Man. Her watercolor paintings depicted fairies and flowers and were inspired by the folklore of the island. She was the daughter of Lord Henry Murray and the niece of John Murray who was the 4th Duke of Atholl. [1] [2]
The Little Fairy Sister (1923) The Sentry and the Shell Fairy (1924) [8] Fairyland (1926) Blossom: A Fairy Story (1928) Bunny and Brownie: The Adventures of George and Wiggle (1930) [9] A Bunch of Wild Flowers (1933) Sixpence to Spend (1935) [10] Australian Bush Songs (1936) The Lost Princess (1937) A Bunch of Wild Flowers (1942) Musical ...
Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £21,620 in 1998. [38] That same year, Geoffrey Crawley sold his Cottingley Fairy material to the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford (now ...