Hi, I need some reliable online information on the origins of flower fairies. Thank you.?

Answer 1

I don't know how reliable this is, but here is some information:

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/faeriesflower.html
http://www.ancientspiral.com/faerie1.htm (read on for flower fairies)
http://faerie.monstrous.com/ (general)
http://faerie.monstrous.com/faerie_n-z.htm#_Toc13224828

There may be more sites, especially if you spell it "faery". You already have the information on Cicely Barker...

Answer 2

Flower Fairies ... name given in the 1920s to the fashionable and popular pictures of fairies named after flowers, Margaret Tarrant started the trend and C M Barker embraced it wholeheartedly.

Flower Fairies are tiny creatures that live in gardens. Whenever a seed sprouts, a Flower Fairy baby is born. Each Flower Fairy lives and sleeps in their chosen flower, plant or tree, and as this grows the fairy grows too. Each and every Flower Fairy is in charge of looking after their flower or plant; keeping it strong and healthy by making sure it has plenty of sunshine and water to drink, sweeping away dead leaves, and polishing flowers and stems.

Since hitting shelves in October Fairyopolis, a fictional journal based on author and illustrator Cicely Mary Barker's summers in the English countryside, has created quite a buzz. The book first appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Children's Picture Books on November 20, 2005 and reached #1 January 15,2006. As of May 7th it is #6 in its 24th week. Packed with fun interactive features, the book includes part of a real fairy's wing, postcards, fairy glamour recipe, glittery fairy dust and more!


Cicely Barker

Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, South London, and spent most of her life there. Because of ill-health she was educated at home and largely taught herself to draw and paint, encouraged by a supportive family and assisted by membership of the Croydon Art Society. She was only sixteen when she had her first work accepted for publication as a set of postcards, And from that time she devoted her career to painting.

It was her Flower Fairies books that brought Cicely Mary Barker her greatest popular acclaim. Like the Pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so much admired, she believed in recreating the beauty of nature in art and in drawing from life. Her plants and flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and in the fairies themselves she captured perfectly the unselfconscious grace of children, whom she used to sketch in her sister's school.

Answer 3

We really have them here in the Redwood Forest where they have lived since the beginning of time.