author
Louise Jamison
b. 1879
A writer of nature stories for young readers, she turned insects and other small creatures into the stars of an imaginative early 20th-century tale. Her best-known book blends gentle fantasy with close attention to the outdoors.
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The Real Fairy Folk
by Louise Jamison
About the author
Louise Jamison was an author born in 1879. Reliable catalog and public-domain records connect her with The Real Fairy Folk, published in 1912 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
That book is a children’s story with a strong nature theme, inviting readers to look at insects and other tiny creatures with curiosity and wonder. The surviving records available here confirm the book and its publication details, but they offer very little biographical information about her life beyond her birth year.
Because so little has been widely preserved online, Jamison remains a somewhat mysterious figure today. What does stand out is the charm of her work: she wrote in a way that made the natural world feel lively, magical, and welcoming to young readers.