Leonora Blanche Alleyne, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Leonora Blanche Alleyne

writer and translator

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1851

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1933

Profession: writer, translator, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Leonora Blanche "Nora" Lang (née Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English author, editor, and translator.
She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913.
The best known of these are the Rainbow Fairy Books, a series of twelve collections of fairy tales each assigned a different colour.