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''The Flower Fairies'' is a collection of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature in a series of children's books, often accompanied by poetry. The drawings are Pre-Raphaelite influenced, and notable for their botanical accuracy.
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''The Flower Fairies'' is a collection of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature Creator/CicelyMaryBarker, featured in a series of children's books, often accompanied by poetry.{{poetry}}. The drawings are Pre-Raphaelite influenced, and notable for their botanical accuracy.
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* ''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)
* ''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)
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* PointyEars: All the fairies have them.
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* PointyEars: All the fairies have them.the elven ears common to sylvan folk.
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* WingedHumanoid: 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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* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children, young teenagers at the oldest, and they all have butterfly- butterfly or dragonfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
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* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or young women and they all have butterfly- or dragonfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
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* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or children, young women teenagers at the oldest, and they all have butterfly- or dragonfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
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* GardenGarment: Many of the fairies seem to be dressed in the petals or leaves of the flowers they represent.
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* PointyEars: All the fairies have them.
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* SkipOfInnocence: Heather and Holly are drawn skipping with joviality.
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* YoungEntrepreneur: Mallow claims to sell her flower's "cheeses" to other fairies.
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* CheerfulChild: Many of the fairies are depicted laughing or frolicking, with large smiles on their faces, and their poems tend to reflect this.
* FreeRangeChildren: If they are children at all, the fairies are free to roam the English countryside without supervision.
* IHaveManyNames: "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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* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or young women and they all have butterfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
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* VagueAge: It's unclear whether the fairies are actual children or just childlike.
* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or young women and they all havebutterfly-like butterfly- or dragonfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or young women and they all have
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And fairies sing.''\\
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And fairies sing.''\\
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-->-- ''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
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* AmbiguousGender: As children, many of the fairies are not clearly male or female--such as Holly, Lords-and-Ladies, and Hawthorn.
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->The World is very old;
->But every Spring
->It groweth young again,
->And fairies sing.
-->''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
''The Flower Fairies'' are a series of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature in a series of children's books, often accompanied by poetry. The drawings are Pre-Raphaelite influenced, and notable for their botanical accuracy.
->But every Spring
->It groweth young again,
->And fairies sing.
-->''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
''The Flower Fairies'' are a series of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature in a series of children's books, often accompanied by poetry. The drawings are Pre-Raphaelite influenced, and notable for their botanical accuracy.
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But every
->It
It groweth young
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And fairies
-->''Flower
-->--''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
''The Flower Fairies''
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!!The Flower Fairies provide examples of:
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Flower Fairies are small childlike or feminine fairies with butterfly-like wings. They are associated with a different plant (flowers, bushes or trees). Their dress also resemble the plant.
%% * CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Flower Fairies are small childlike or feminine fairies with butterfly-like wings. They are associated with a different plant (flowers, bushes or trees). Their dress also resemble the plant.
%% * CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification:
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* CreatorProvincialism: The flowers and names used are all endemic to Barker's native England, and may be unfamiliar to readers from other areas.
* CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and
-->A little Christmas Tree was born\\
And dwelt in open air;\\
It did not know how bright a dress\\
some day its bows would wear
--->-- [-"The Song of the Christmas Tree Fairy"-]
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* EnglishRose: The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl, with gentle eyes, blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and she's dressed in a pink dress. One line is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
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* EnglishRose: The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl, with gentle eyes, blond hair, and fair skin with rosy cheeks cheeks, and she's dressed in a pink dress. gown. One line is reads, "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
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As dear to Englishmen;
%% * IJustWantToBeBeautiful: From the alphabet, poor Fairy U.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small, winged and associated with flowers.
%% * {{Poetry}}
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
%% * IJustWantToBeBeautiful: From the alphabet, poor Fairy U.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small, winged and associated with flowers.
%% * {{Poetry}}
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
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As dear to Englishmen;
%%Englishmen
* TheGoodKing: 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.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful:From Fairy U, from the alphabet, poor Fairy U.
is without a flower and melancholy because of it until his neighbor Vetch invites him to share his.
-->Poor little U\\
Has nothing to do!\\
He hasn't a flower: not one.\\
For U is Unlucky, I'm sorry to tell;\\
U stands for Unfortunate, Ugly as well
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small,winged winged, and associated with flowers.
%% * {{Poetry}}
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.{{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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* TheGoodKing: 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.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful:
-->Poor little U\\
Has nothing to do!\\
He hasn't a flower: not one.\\
For U is Unlucky, I'm sorry to tell;\\
U stands for Unfortunate, Ugly as well
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small,
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
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* EnglishRose: The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl, with blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and dressed in a pink dress. One line is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
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* EnglishRose: The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl, with gentle eyes, blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and she's dressed in a pink dress. One line is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification
AnthropomorphicPersonification: Flower Fairies are small childlike or feminine fairies with butterfly-like wings. They are associated with a different plant (flowers, bushes or trees). Their dress also resemble the plant.
%% * CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
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* EnglishRose: The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl, with blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and dressed in a pink dress. One line is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
-->I am the queen whom everybody knows\\
I am the English Rose;\\
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,\\
As dear to Englishmen;
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-->I am the queen whom everybody knows\\
I am the English Rose;\\
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,\\
As dear to Englishmen;
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
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* WingedHumanoid: All the flower fairies look like children or young women and they all have butterfly-like wings of various colours and sizes.
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->The World is very old;
->But every Spring
->It groweth young again,
->And fairies sing.
-->''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
The Flower Fairies are a series of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature 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.
[[AC: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 [[http://www.flowerfairies.com/ official website]].
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!!The Flower Fairies provide examples of:
* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
* DontTryThisAtHome: Readers are warned against playing with poisonous laburnum pods.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: From the alphabet, poor Fairy U.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small, winged and associated with flowers.
* {{Poetry}}
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
* [[ShownTheirWork 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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->But every Spring
->It groweth young again,
->And fairies sing.
-->''Flower Fairies of the Spring''
The Flower Fairies are a series of illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, which feature 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.
[[AC: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 [[http://www.flowerfairies.com/ official website]].
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!!The Flower Fairies provide examples of:
* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* CommonMeter: Used in some of the poems, such as "Christmas Tree" and "Sycamore".
* DontTryThisAtHome: Readers are warned against playing with poisonous laburnum pods.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: From the alphabet, poor Fairy U.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're small, winged and associated with flowers.
* {{Poetry}}
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Golden Kingcup Fairy.
* [[ShownTheirWork 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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