author
Fay Inchfawn
1880–1978
A hugely popular English writer of verse, children's books, and devotional works, she wrote in a warm, everyday voice that made her a favorite with magazine readers between the wars. Her pen name, Fay Inchfawn, became closely linked with poems and prose about home life, faith, and ordinary kindness.
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The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman
by Fay Inchfawn
About the author
Born Elizabeth Rebecca Ward on 2 December 1880, she wrote under the pen name Fay Inchfawn and became one of the best-known popular women writers of her day. She published widely in magazines and books, producing verse, religious writing, and stories for children in a style that was direct, comforting, and easy to connect with.
Her work was especially successful in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when her poems and reflections on family life and belief reached a large readership. She was sometimes called "The Poet Laureate of the Home," a nickname that captures both her popularity and the homely, encouraging tone of her writing.
Ward died on 16 April 1978. Although she is less famous now than she once was, her writing still offers a clear picture of the kind of uplifting, domestic literature that meant a great deal to many twentieth-century readers.