wildflower

This is my personal favorite of the Flower Children series.

Agreed. The skirt's great!

This is just great.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fairy Godparents, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called inside the looking glass, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

ESTELLE THOMSON. A versatile little lady is Mrs. Estelle Thomson, the author of a charming booklet on Australian wild flowers. Living in happy domesticity in her home on the Eight Mile Plains, she is within easy reach of her beloved bush and its rich harvest of shrub and vine and flower. Mrs. Thomson chose her parents well, inheriting from one her love of nature, and from the other artistry that with a deft touch of pencil and brush can make form and colour the medium of her beauty. At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Thomson was elected as President of the Queensland Naturalist Club, an honour that has only been accorded to one other woman in this State. Botanists, of course, have named and labelled all our Queensland flowers. Mrs. Thomson is interested in an attempt being made to add fanciful descriptive names to many of these flowers—names that the children growing up will remember and love. Not content with helping her own three young Queenslanders to study nature, she has visited a country school week-in and week-out to teach the students there something of the joy and loveliness he found in bushland. A fitting title for her is surely this: "The little lady of the flowers." FLAME. Source: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/182842542# The Week, 27, May 1931

The Wild Flower was owned by Lord Muskerry of Springfield Castle, Drumcolliher. Co.Limerick from 1883 until latest 1910.

According to his peerage entry, Hamilton Matthew Tilson FitzMaurice Deane-Morgan, 4th Baron Muskerry had 5 kids, but only one daughter, Flora, born in 1882. Given her apparent age, it's probably the mid 1880s.

Here are Hamilton and Flora (aged 18) in the 1901 census.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

A closer photo and two of the Wild Flower - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589919 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589920 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589921 Via Trove - "... Lord Muskerry possesses one of those encumbered estates which leaves a wretched margin of income to the nominal owners. Lady Muskerry has latterly materially helped to increase the income by engaging in the egg and fowl trade. She owns over three thousand hens, and has at least an acre of the demesne wired in for them." trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115449830 (1887) "... It was in a debate in the House of Lords in September, 1893, when the little Lord Muskerry was giving himself airs as a representative peer. " Lord Muskerry," said Lord Rosebery, " knows all about Ireland, but what does Ireland know about Lord Muskerry ?" trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170313114 (1896)