Emily Flora Klickmann was an English journalist, author and editor.
13 Facts About Flora Klickmann
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Flora Klickmann was the second editor of the Girl's Own Paper, but became best known for her Flower-Patch series of books of anecdotes, autobiography and nature description.
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Flora Klickmann was born on 26 January 1867 in Brixton, London, one of six children of German-born Rudolf Klickmann and his wife, Fanny Warne.
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The family moved to Sydenham in south London when Flora was in her teens.
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Flora Klickmann aspired to be a concert pianist, and studied at Trinity College of Music and at the Royal College of Organists.
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Flora Klickmann travelled to the small Gloucestershire village of Brockweir in the Wye valley, where her mother's family lived, before returning to London.
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Flora Klickmann stayed in the house in Dulwich until her marriage.
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Flora Klickmann acquired a succession of cottages in the area over the years.
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Flora Klickmann's writing has been described as "humorous, elegant and beautifully observed, revealing a genuine love and concern for the natural world".
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Flora Klickmann published novels, advice books, children's stories and non-fiction on many topics including gardening, cooking, and needlework techniques, some of which have been republished in recent years.
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Flora Klickmann remained editor of the Girl's Own Paper until 1931, when she and her husband retired permanently to Brockweir.
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Flora Klickmann lived an increasingly reclusive life after her husband's death in 1937.
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Flora Klickmann died in 1958, and was buried in the graveyard of the Moravian Church at Brockweir.