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Margaret Fairless Barber

Born

May 07, 1869

Died

August 24, 1901

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Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 – 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902), became a popular classic.

Margaret Barber, English nature-writer and mystic, was born at Castle Hill, Rastrick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Fairless Barber and Maria (Musgrave) Barber. She read Scott and Dickens before the age of twelve and fraternized with frogs; later pets included Jacob, a French bulldog, Phoebe, a magnificent orange Persian, and Trilby, another cat that looked like "a depressed charwoman." For a time she was a nurse, known as The Fighting Sister, in one of London's worst slums, the Jago.

A spinal weakness had developed in her girlhood, an ...more

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	The Roadmender by Margaret Fairless Barber, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The complete works of Michael Fairless [pseud.]: With a biographical note by M. E. Dowson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse 1917 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse 1912 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Roadmender by Michael Fairless [Pseud.] ; Illustrations by E. Blampied 1902 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gathering of Brother Hilarius / by Michael Fairless 1920 Leather Bound 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grey Bretheren And Other Fragments in Prose and Verse 1905 Leather Bound 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render
it the more fit for its prime function of looking-forward.”
― Margaret Fairless Barber

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