Rose Amy Fyleman (née Feilmann, 6 March 1877 – 1 August 1957) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on fairies for children. Her 1917 poem “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann. (Source: Wikipedia)
I think she’s one of those authors that’re maybe more popular in her own country– which is probably why I hadn’t heard of her before my research in Victorian/Edwardian fairy tale books, as I’m from the US and she was British! Of course, that means she’s a perfect fit for the library here on Old Fashioned Finds, as we’re all about digging through archives to find treasures from the past.
This index is only of her books and poetry, and other published works in that vein. I didn’t include plays, operas, musicals, etc.
Everything is alphabetical by title. Links go to digital editions that have been made available on various repositories, including Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, and so on and can be freely downloaded.
👉 You may also be interested in exploring other Fairy Tale posts here on OFF!
Children’s Books
- The Adventure Club (1925)
- Adventures with Benghazi (1946)
- The Dolls’ House (1930)
- The Easter Hare, and Other Stories (1932)
- Forty Good-Morning Tales (1926)
- Forty Good-Night Tales (1923)
- Hob and Bob: A Tale of Two Goblins (1944)
- Jeremy Quince, Lord Mayor of London (1933)
- The Katy Kruse Play Book (1930)
- Letty: A Study of a Child (1926)
- Lucy the Lamb (1951)
- Neddy the Donkey (1951)
- Nursery Stories (1949)
- The Princess Dances (1933)
- The Rainbow Cat and Other Stories (1922) (also at Faded Page) 👉 Illustrations from Rose Fyleman’s The Rainbow Cat (1923) here at OFF
- The Smith Family at the Seaside (1947)
- The Smith Family in the Country (1947)
- The Smith Family in Town (1947)
- The Sparrow and the Goat (1951)
- The Starling and the Fox (1951)
- The Strange Adventures of Captain Marwhopple (1931)
- The Timothy Boy Trust (1944)
- Timothy’s Conjuror (1942)
- Twenty Tea-Time Tales (1929)
- White Flower (1953)
Poetry Books
- The Blue Rhyme Book (1933)
- Fairies and Chimneys (1920)
- Fairies and Friends (1925)
- The Fairy Flute (1921)
- The Fairy Green (1919)
- A Fairy Went A-Marketing (1986)
- Fifty-one New Nursery Rhymes (1931)
- A Garland of Rose’s: Collected Poems of Rose Fyleman (1928)
- Gay Go Up (1929)
- Number Rhymes (1946)
- Old-Fashioned Girls, and Other Poems (1928)
- A Princess Comes to Our Town (1927)
- Rhyme Book for Adam (1949)
- The Rose Fyleman Calendar (1927)
- The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book (1923)
- Runabout Rhymes (1941)
- A Small Cruse (1923)
- The Sunny Book (1918)
As Editor
- A’Piping Again, illustrations by Irene Mountfort (1936)
- Bells Ringing: An Anthology of Verse for Young Children (1938)
- Here We Come A’Piping (1936-37)
- Let’s Play (1943)
- Over the Tree Tops: Nursery Rhymes from Many Lands (1949)
- Pipe and Drum: An Anthology of Verse for Young Children (1939)
- Punch and Judy (1944)
- Round the Mulberry Bush: Being a Book of Stories and Verses for Children (1928)
- Sugar and Spice: A Collection of Nursery Rhymes, New and Old (1935)
Other Publications
- Bears (1935)
- Billy Monkey: A True Tale of a Capuchin (1936), with E. M. D. Wilson
- A Book of Saints: Joan of Arc to St. Nicholas (1939)
- Daphne and Dick: An Uncle from Canada (1952)
- Daphne and Dick: Round and About (1952)
- Folk-Tales from Many Lands (1939) — still copyrighted in US
- Hey! Ding-a-Ding (1931)
- Joy Street Poems (1927), contributor
- The Katy Kruse Dolly Book 1927)
- A Little Christmas Book (1926)
- Monkeys (1936)
- The Rose Fyleman Birthday Book (1932)
- The Second Katy Kruse Dolly Book (1930)
Sources & Resources
Rose Fyleman. (2025). The Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rose-fyleman
Online Books Page for Rose Fyleman: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=fyleman&amode=words
Bromley House Library’s biography: https://bromleyhouse.org/rose-fyleman-a-nottingham-author-1877-1957-by-rowena-edlin-white/
Rose Fyleman, Nottingham’s Ambassador from Fairyland. (2001). Lazell, David. https://www.hoap.co.uk/rose_fyleman.pdf
Rose Fyleman audiobooks: https://librivox.org/author/3563
