Edith Carrington facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Edith Carrington
Portrait (1894)
Born	1853
Died	1929 (aged 75–76)
Occupation	Author and animal rights activist

Edith Carrington (1853 – 1929) was a famous English person who worked hard to protect animals. She also encouraged people to eat plant-based foods, which is called vegetarianism. For a while, she was an artist. But from 1889, she started writing books about animals instead. She strongly disagreed with a plan to get rid of house sparrows. She was also against vivisection, which is using live animals for experiments.

Edith Carrington's Life and Work

Edith Carrington was born in 1853 in Swainswick, Bath, Somerset. Her parents were Henry Edmund Carrington and Emily Heywood Johns. Her family was wealthy.

She was inspired by a writer named Charles Kingsley. He helped her learn about natural history, which is the study of animals, plants, and nature. Edith felt that her most important goal was to help and protect animals. She believed they were "God's beautiful and sinless mute creatures."

Helping Animals Through Writing

Edith Carrington wrote regularly for a magazine called The Animals' Friend. This magazine started in 1894. She also worked with Henry Stephens Salt, another person who cared deeply about animals. She was part of a group called the Humanitarian League, which began in 1891. This group worked to help both people and animals.

Her first book, Stories for Somebody, was written when she was 35 years old. After that, she wrote many animal stories especially for children. One series of books was called Animal Life Readers. Edith Carrington and Ernest Bell edited these books. They had pictures drawn by Harrison Weir and other artists. Edith also ran her own children's magazine. It was called Our Animal Brothers.

Her Published Works

Edith Carrington wrote many books and articles. Here are some of her selected publications:

• Workers Without Wage (1893)
• The Farmer and the Birds (1898)
• Spare the Sparrow (1897)
• Man's Helpers (1897)
• Wonderful Tools (1897)
• Nobody's Business (1891)
• Stories for Somebody
• Flower Folk
• Friendship of Animals
• Ten Tales Without a Title
• Bread and Butter Stories
• Appeals on behalf of the Speechless: A Series of Tracts
• The Extermination of Birds
• A Narrow, Narrow World
• A Story of Wings
• Five Stars in a Little Pool
• The Dog: His Rights and Wrongs
• The Cat: Her Place in Society and Treatment
• Animals in the Wrong Place
• Anecdotes of Horses
• Ages Ago