Flower Folk.

By Edith Carrington

Printed: Circa 1920

Publisher: Griffin Farran & Co. London

Dimensions 13 × 19 × 2 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 13 x 19 x 2

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Faded pink cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board.

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A lovely book somewhat before its time. Edith Carrington was a prominent English animal rights activist and promoter of vegetarianism.

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles. Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as flower children. The term later became generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and so-called counterculture of drugs, psychedelic music, psychedelic art and social permissiveness.

                                     

Edith Carrington (1853–1929) was a prominent English animal rights activist and promoter of vegetarianism. She was for sometime an artist, but began to write books on animals from 1889. She was a vocal opponent of Eleanor Anne Ormerod’s campaign seeking the extermination of the house sparrow and was an anti-vivisectionist. Carrington was born in Swainswick, Bath, Somerset to Henry Edmund Carrington and Emily Heywood Johns (1814–1890). Coming from a wealthy family, she was influenced by Charles Kingsley who introduced her to study natural history and took on herself the “wish for no higher mission than to live and die in the cause of God’s beautiful and sinless mute creatures.” She wrote regularly in The Animals’ Friend (established in 1894) and was a collaborator of Henry Stephens Salt and was a participant in the Humanitarian League (established 1891).

Carrington’s first book Stories for Somebody was written when she was thirty-five. She later wrote a number of animal stories for children. One series Animal Life Readers edited by Carrington and Ernest Bell was illustrated by Harrison Weir and others. She also ran a children’s magazine called Our Animal Brothers.

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