De Morgan, Mary
De Morgan, Mary (1850–1907),British writer of fairy tales. The youngest child of a professor of mathematics at London University and sister of William De Morgan, artist and author, after the death of her father in 1871 she went to live with her brother in the Chelsea house where he designed pottery and ornamental tiles. Here she met Pre‐Raphaelite writers and artists such as William Morris and Edward Burne‐Jones (to whose children she told her first stories). Her first book of fairy tales, On a Pincushion, illustrated by her brother, was published in 1877. The opening preamble, ‘On a Pincushion’, is in the style of Hans Christian Andersen, and his influence can be detected in ‘The Story of Vain Lamorna’, where pride and vanity are humbled. But the magical stealing of Lamorna's reflection is a theme used by E. T. A....
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