Rose Fyleman

Rose Fyleman

Rose Amy Fyleman (1877 – 1957) 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. Her Christmas carol "Lift your hidden faces", set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal "Songs of Praise" (1931) as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's "Songs of Light" (1977).

Life

She was born in Nottingham on 6 March 1877, the third child of John Feilmann and his wife, Emilie, née Loewenstein, who was of Russian extraction. Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were Jews who had come from Jever in Oldenburg in Germany in 1860. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

She died at a nursing home in St. Albans on 1 August 1957.

Published Works

Fiction

* The Rainbow Cat, 1922

Poetry

* Fairies and Chimneys, 1929
* The Fairy Green, 1919
* The Fairy Flute, 1921
* Faries,----
* The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend
* Mice "I think mice are rather nice..."

Notes

External links

* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Fyleman%2c%20Rose%2c%201877%2d1957 Rose Fyleman] , Online Books page with links to editions of 3 of her works.
* [http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/fyleman.html The Other Pages] , selected poems


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