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Many people remember the flower fairies as enchanting mythical figures from their childhood, while nowadays we see them on greeting cards and giftware. The Flower Fairies were created by Cicely Mary Barker in 1923, when she had her first series of drawings published in a book. Since then her works have become children’s classics and are sold around the world.
Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and being a sickly child she was educated at home. Cicely excelled at pastel drawing and taught herself to paint in oils and watercolours. Her father encouraged her to draw and together they joined the Croydon Art Society in 1908.
Peter Pan is now over 100 years old and as popular as ever. The names of Neverland, Peter Pan and Wendy are part of our everyday language, but on 27 December 1904, the audience at the Duke of York Theatre in London were amazed by the strange and exotic characters that flew above the stage. [...]