Fee Greening

Fee is a dip pen and ink illustrator inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts and gothic fairytales. She graduated from Central St. Martin's in 2012 and received a masters from the Royal College of Art in 2014.

 

She has worked with Gucci, Hermès, Sisley Paris, Liberty London, Fortnum and Mason, Alexa Chung, Florence and the Machine, Penhaligons, Faber & Faber, Island Records, Sony Music, Tate, The Royal Court Theatre and Martini, and has had profile pieces appear in Vogue, Financial Times HTSI and Harper’s Bazaar. She lives in a cottage in the woods in deepest darkest Dorset with her partner Dan, a guitarist and her dog Patti Sniff a blue eyed merle collie. 

 

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Briggs (1898-1980) was a British folklorist, scholar and author, recognised today as the most important archivist of British folktales. Over the course of her life, she published fourteen books, lectured widely and was president of The Folklore Society. Her books were read and used by contemporaries including J.R.R. Tolkien. To reflect the monumental work Briggs did to collect, catalogue and publish folk stories from Britain and Ireland before the turn of the 21st century, The Folklore Society present an annual award in her honour. From brownies to Shetland selkies, Cornish spriggans to Nuckelavee (the most horrid of monsters in all of Britain) Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies is a treasury of stories, songs and creatures passed down from one generation to the next.

Praise:

'When it comes to the world of fairies Katharine Briggs is the greatest authority by many a league, and this is the finest guide ever written.'
PHILIP PULLMAN

'Katharine Briggs's Dictionary is truly wonderful: vivid, witty, and full of a profound and generous knowledge that will thrill both children and adults. Spectacular.'
KATHERINE RUNDELL

'Katharine Briggs is an editor of such surpassing knowledge that one suspects that she may have sources among witches, ghosts and fairies.'
DIANE PURKIS