Mary Archer was born in Surrey in 1883, and died in London in 1973. She was a writer, poet and illustrator. Her illustrations for her son Noel's poetry collection Green Fingers appeared in the 1940s. She published her own poetry in The Poetry Review between 1913 and 1922, and wrote a book about her experiences of living with an alcoholic father
She illustrated several children's books, including A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which has been adapted into a film that won best picture at the Oscars. Her work is represented in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the V&A Museum of Childhood, and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.Mary Archer
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.Mary Archer
