Fyleman, Rose (Amy Fyleman) (1877–1957), British children's poet, author, and playwright. Scores of Fyleman's deft, light‐hearted fairy poems appeared in Punch in the 1920s, a period when belief in dainty, flower‐dwelling fairies was fashionable even among adults. ‘Fairies’, which begins, notoriously, ‘There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!’ (Fairies and Chimneys, 1918) became a byword for this type of poetry and the whimsical mentality associated with it. Fairies also pervade Fyleman's children's stories in The Rainbow Cat (1923) and Forty Good‐Morning Tales (1929), and her Eight Little Plays for Children (1925).
— Suzanne Rahn
