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Flower Fairies
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The Flower Fairies is a collection of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, featured in a series of children's books, often accompanied by poetry. The drawings are Pre-Raphaelite influenced, and notable for their botanical accuracy.The Flower Fairies themselves are small, childlike fairies, often with butterfly-like wings. Cute and sweet-natured, if occasionally mischievous, they are each associated with a different flowering plant, and dressed to resemble that plant.The books in the series are: Flower Fairies of the Spring (1923) Flower Fairies of the Summer (1925) Flower Fairies of the Autumn (1926) A Flower Fairy Alphabet (1934) Flower Fairies of the Trees (1940) Flower Fairies of the Garden (1944) Flower Fairies of the Wayside (1948) Flower Fairies of the Winter (1985)More information about the Flower Fairies, including illustrations of the fairies and a biography of the author, can be found on their official website. | |
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Garden Garment | |
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Garden Garment: Many of the fairies seem to be dressed in the petals or leaves of the flowers they represent. | |
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Winged Humanoid | |
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Winged Humanoid: All the flower fairies look like children, young teenagers at the oldest, and they all have butterfly or dragonfly-like wings of various colours and sizes. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
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Ambiguous Gender: As children, many of the fairies are not clearly male or female—such as Holly, Lords-and-Ladies, and Hawthorn. | |
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Don't Try This at Home | |
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Don't Try This at Home: Readers are warned against playing with poisonous laburnum pods. | |
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Vague Age | |
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Vague Age: It's unclear whether the fairies are actual children or just childlike. | |
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Free-Range Children | |
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Free-Range Children: If they are children at all, the fairies are free to roam the English countryside without supervision. | |
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Our Fairies Are Different | |
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Our Fairies Are Different: They're small, winged, and associated with flowers. | |
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Young Entrepreneur | |
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Young Entrepreneur: Mallow claims to sell her flower's "cheeses" to other fairies. | |
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Skip of Innocence | |
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Skip of Innocence: Heather and Holly are drawn skipping with joviality. | |
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Poetry | |
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Poetry: Each illustration is accompanied by a short poem, of one to three stanzas, sharing a little information about the flower and its associated fairy. | |
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Common Meter | |
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Common Meter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore". | |
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Pointy Ears | |
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Pointy Ears: All the fairies have the elven ears common to sylvan folk. | |
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Cheerful Child | |
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Cheerful Child: Many of the fairies are depicted laughing or frolicking, with large smiles on their faces, and their poems tend to reflect this. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: "Bird's-foot Trefoil" discusses this, laughing at the many comical names she's known by like Bacon and Eggs, Cuckoo's Stockings, and Lady's Slipper. | |
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Creator Provincialism | |
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Creator Provincialism: The flowers and names used are all endemic to Barker's native England, and may be unfamiliar to readers from other areas. | |
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The Good King | |
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The Good King: The Golden Kingcup Fairy is described as reigning over a swampy domain, but being generous with little fairies who come to marvel at his yellow flowers. | |
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I Just Want to Be Beautiful | |
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I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Fairy U, from the alphabet, is without a flower and melancholy because of it until his neighbor Vetch invites him to share his. | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification: Each fairy represents a different flowering plant or tree, which they dress in the style of and exhibit the characteristics of, according to the poems. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Her Work: The flowers Barker has drawn are all true to their real life counterparts. Even more impressive seeing as she had to draw both the flowers and the children used for her models at an equal scale. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Children's Literature / int_598bb56b | |
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Fairy Fiction / int_598bb56b | |
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Our Fairies Are Different / int_598bb56b |
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