She was born in Nottingham on 6 March 1877, the third child of John Feilmann and his wife, Emilie, née Loewenstein, who was of Russian extraction. Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were Jews who had come from Jever in Oldenburg in Germany in 1860.

She died at a nursing home in St. Albans on 1 August 1957.

Fiction

• The Rainbow Cat, 1922
• Forty Good-Night Tales, 1924

Poetry

• Fairies and Chimneys, (Methuen & Co), 1918
• The Fairy Green, 1919
• The Fairy Flute, 1921
• Faries,----
• The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend
• Mice "I think mice are rather nice..."