author
Lilian Gask
b. 1865
Best known for old-fashioned fairy tales, animal stories, and other children's books, this British writer built a lively body of work in the early 20th century. Her stories often mix gentle fantasy with a clear affection for nature and young readers.
2 Audiobooks
The golden story book
by L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon, Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry
The Fairies and the Christmas Child
by Lilian Gask
About the author
Lilian Fanny Gask was a British author of children's books, born in Marylebone, London, in 1865 and later dying in Camberwell on November 17, 1942. Sources consulted describe her as the eldest of six children of Charles Gask and Fanny Edis, and note that her brother Arthur Gask also became a writer.
Before her publishing career, she appears in the 1891 England and Wales Census as a pupil nurse in London. Her first book, Dog Tales, was published in 1904, and it was followed by many more books for children, including fairy tales, folk-style stories, and books about animals and the natural world.
Her work has the feel of classic nursery and storybook reading: imaginative, warm, and strongly shaped by the tastes of her time. A suitable portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.