Whimsy

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Whimsy:  Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior

Cicely Mary Barker "Lavender Fairy"

Cicely Mary Barker was born in Surrey, England in 1895.  She was frail as a child and suffered from epilepsy.  Her father, an artist himself, encouraged her artistic talent.  At first she took a correspondence course in art and later when her epilepsy abated she attended the Croydon School of Art.  When she was 17 her father died, financially strapping the family.   She was already selling her art for greeting cards and eventually to magazines and books to help the family's finances.  By the time she was 27, in 1923, she was able to sell her illustrations and poems to a publisher.  Her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published.