and thanks to jerri, i now own a copy of my elusive childhood love!Īnd this edition is so much nicer than the one i read as a kid.the illustrations are rackham's (i did not know who he was as a child) and they are just gorgeous. with pretty illustrations inside.īut through the good works of my daddy, the day was finally saved. i knew it was not one of the lang collections, and i knew it was a collection of english tales. and no one in the family had any answers for me when i begged them to help me get my hands on it. it was very unassuming: a plain blue clothbound book with no cover illustrations, and nothing that stuck out in my mind when i had to remember what it physically looked like. andrews, frankly.Īnd there was this fairy tale book i loved. So i would be forced to head to her bookshelves. a new library! different books! but i would of course run through those pretty quickly, damn you rental limits!! i would bring my own, of course, and when i ran out of those, as i invariably would, she would take me to her local library, which was always a treat. When i was a little girl, and would stay over at my grandmother's house, i would always need a stack of books to entertain me. In 1889 the family moved back to Scotland, and she continued her writing there. A year before leaving India, she coauthored and published The Complete Indian Housekeeper, giving detailed directions to European women on all aspects of household management in India. Her interest in schools and the education of women gave her a special insight into native life and character. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales, a collection of which she published in 1884. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. She acted as school inspector and mediator in local arguments. When her husband's health was weak, Flora Annie Steel looked after some of his responsibilities. In 1867 she married Henry William Steel, a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected. Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was an English writer.
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