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Rose Fyleman
English writer and poet
Rose Amy Fyleman (6 March, –1 August, ) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden"[1] was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.
Her carol "Lift your hidden faces", set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise (), The Oxford Book of Carols () as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light ().
Life and works
Rose Fyleman was born in Nottingham on 6 March , the third child of John Feilmann and his wife, Emilie, née Loewenstein, who was of Russian extraction.
Her father was in the lace trade, and his Jewish family originated in from Jever in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, currently Lower Saxony, Germany.[2]
As a young girl, Fyleman was educated at a private school, and at the age of nine first saw one of her compositions published in a local paper.
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