author

Michael Fairless

1869–1901

Best known for the spiritual classic The Roadmender, this English writer published under a masculine pen name and left behind a small body of work that continued to find readers after her early death. Her writing is quiet, reflective, and rooted in Christian thought.

4 Audiobooks

The Roadmender

by Michael Fairless

The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse

by Michael Fairless

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius

by Michael Fairless

The Roadmender

by Michael Fairless

About the author

Born Margaret Fairless Barber in 1869, she wrote under the name Michael Fairless. She was an English Christian writer, and her best-known book, The Roadmender, became the work most closely associated with her.

Fairless died in 1901 at a young age, but her writing continued to circulate after her death. Readers have often been drawn to the calm, meditative quality of her work and its thoughtful spiritual tone.