THE FAIRY LADY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6

THE FAIRY LADY

"SHE NEVER GREW UP."

She died as recently as .1933—0 r rather she took a step out of this world into another.

A charming and wonderful woman she was, so quaint in her thoughts, so merry in disposition that an editor who knew her called her Barrie’s Twin. She was Lady Cave, the Lord Chancellor’s wife, and she was full of whimsical ways. She once wrote, “I ought to be kept under glass,” and it was true.

There has never been anyone quite like her. She loved flowers, and was like her own blooms. She had 99 herbs growing in her garden at Richmond. She kept ants and studied them. She wrote a comical book about them, and when she drew an ant (for she was a wonderful artist) she added the lovely note: They have six legs, but I have left two to the imagination.

For, like Peter Pan, she never grew up.

She painted marvellous pictures showing the passing of the ages with pre-historic monsters and dazzling winged creatures and extraordinary landscapes, and she drew things which only William Blake could have imagined, and added quaint footnotes: Lady Pterodactyle at Home, four to six. For 43 years Lady Cave and Lord Cave were happily married. Then he passed on, and she lived another ten years; and only a little time before she died she climbed through a window to visit the soldiers’ widows at Kingston . as we say, she never would grow up!