Marianne L. B. Ker

Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm, but surviving records show that Marianne L. B. Ker wrote How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings, published in 1872. The book was illustrated by J. A. Martin and was issued in London.

The title page of that book also identifies her as the author of Eva's Victory and Sybil Grey, suggesting she wrote several works for young readers. Her best-known surviving work is a short fantasy for children, and its continued circulation through public-domain libraries has helped keep her name in print.

Because reliable personal details are scarce, it is safest to remember her through the tone of her writing: warm, moral, and imaginative in the way many 19th-century children's stories were. Readers coming to her work today will likely find a small window into Victorian storytelling, where fairy-world wonder and moral growth go hand in hand.