title: Flower Fairies of the Autumn
author:  Cicely Mary Barker 
description: Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. She found international acclaim as an artist with her delightful Flower Fairies books the first of which, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was printed in 1923.
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  On a fine summer’s evening Florio, a young nobleman, was riding slowly towards
  the gates of Lucca, enjoying both the delicate fragrance that shimmered over
  the beautiful landscape and the towers and roofs of the city before him, and
  the colourful procession of spruce ladies and gentleman which strolled in a
  merry throng down the avenues of chestnut-trees along both sides of the
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  Then another rider, heading in the same direction on a dainty palfrey, and
  wearing brightly-coloured clothes, with a golden chain around his neck and a
  velvet cap with feathers over his dark-brown locks, trotted up to his 1
  
  
  side with a friendly greeting. Riding side by side into the dar