Flora Klickmann

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FK was a journalist first and foremost, whose most famous books were her Flower-Patch series of sketches, which were largely reprinted from the Girl's Own Paper (where she had a long run as editor from 1908) and which combined nature description, anecdote, autobiography, religion, and humour. She also published novels, advice books, children's stories and non-fiction on many topics including gardening and cooking. Her characteristic tone is a mixture of the amusing and the didactic.
  • BirthName: Emily Flora Klickmann
  • Married: Smith; Henderson Smith
    David Lazell , author of a brief biography of FK , explains that her husband's original surname was Smith, but that he later changed it to incorporate one of his baptismal names, so that the surname became Henderson Smith, either with or without a hyphen.
    Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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  • Indexed: Flora Klickmann; F. Klickmann

Milestones

26 January 1867

FK was born at 18 Millbrook Road, Brixton, in South London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

September 1904

The first number appeared of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society 's new magazine, The Foreign Field, under the editorship of FK .
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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Spring 1908

FK became only the second editor of the Girl's Own Paper, in succession to Charles Peters , who had died at the end of 1907. It now assumed the title Girl's Own Paper and Women's Magazine.
The paper's early pre-Klickman years were celebrated by Wendy Forrester in 1980 in Great-Grandmama's Weekly: a Celebration of the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1901.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

May 1916

At nearly fifty, FK published with the Religious Tract SocietyThe Flower-Patch Among the Hills, a set of sketches based on her own experiences at her country cottage.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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20 November 1958

FK died; her death was reported in the South Wales Argus and from there reached other papers.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(24 November 1958): 10
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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Biography

Birth and Family

26 January 1867

FK was born at 18 Millbrook Road, Brixton, in South London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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