Illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Tragically, both of her sons died in action in World War II, and she did not publish again after the war ended, saying that “the war stopped the taste for fairies – in parents anyhow – and the fairies fled, appalled at the bomb”. (The Art of the Australian Fairy)
*this is not entirely true - she did publish again, just nothing about fairies. Pixies, yes. Guineapigs, sure. Fairies, no.

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