Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fairies
Well before Little Women (1868-69), Louisa May Alcott wrote a book of stories about flower fairies that she had first told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen. The Alcott family had moved in across the street from the Emersons when Louisa was an adolescent. Ellen Emerson was about five years younger than her imaginative neighbor, Louisa. Flower Fables, published in 1854, was Alcott's first book-length work. This later British edition has lovely illustrations by Harry Fi
