Leonora Blanche Alleyne

Leonora Blanche Alleyne
Born
Leonora Blanche Alleyne

(1851-03-08)8 March 1851
Died10 July 1933(1933-07-10) (aged 82)
The Green Fairy Book (1902)

Leonora Blanche Lang (née Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English writer, editor, and translator. She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913. The best known of these are the Rainbow Fairy Books, a series of twelve collections of fairy tales each assigned a different colour.