author
Flora Klickmann
1867–1958
Best known for the warmly observed Flower-Patch books, this English writer and editor turned everyday village life, gardening, and nature into lively, companionable reading. She also helped shape one of Britain’s most popular magazines for girls and young women.
3 Audiobooks
Between the Larch-woods and the Weir
by Flora Klickmann
The Flower-Patch Among the Hills
by Flora Klickmann
The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors
by Flora Klickmann
About the author
Emily Flora Klickmann was an English journalist, author, and editor, born in Brixton on January 26, 1867. She is remembered above all for her Flower-Patch series, a group of anecdotal and autobiographical books that drew on country life around Brockweir in the Wye Valley and won a wide readership.
Before becoming best known as an author, she built a successful career in publishing and magazine work. Klickmann became the second editor of The Girl's Own Paper, later The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, and was noted for making it an important magazine for girls and women in the early 20th century. Sources also describe an early ambition to become a concert pianist, though illness reportedly changed the course of her career.
Her writing ranges well beyond the Flower-Patch books, including fiction, practical household and craft titles, and guidance for aspiring writers. She died on November 20, 1958, leaving behind work valued for its humor, detail, and affectionate picture of everyday English life.