Sister Agnes 
Fairy Tales Told in the Bush 

Fairy Tales Told in the Bush – Fairy Tales from Down Under

A new edition of an old book published in the year 1911 – ‘Fairy Tales Told in the Bush’, by ‘Sister Agnes’.
It appears, that the author had written the book under a pseudonym or false name, perhaps with the intention to hide her identity. This is not the case, as Sister Agnes was a well know person in her community at the time.
Agnes Row was born in Australia, Campbell’s Creek, Victoria, in the year 1866, as the second youngest of five surviving children. When her mother died at an early age, the eldest sister took responsibility over her younger siblings, but also she died very soon.
In 1896 she became a deaconess, Sister Agnes, parting from her surname forever. She belonged to an Anglican order of women, the CHN – Community of the Holy Name, looking after slum-dwellers, providing medical care, refuges for women, education and Christianity.
Put in charge of St George’s Mission Hall, she found her purpose in looking after the needy boys. When she read her stories to them, she kept a hall full of them interested and excited; they were eating out of her hand, everyone felt that nothing could go wrong with her around and whatever she said was fair and right, becoming a guide for their future life.
Other assignments followed, like the Superintendent of the Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes in Melbourne or Superintendent of St Mark’s Mothers’ Union.
Sister Agnes died in the year 1930.


Completely re-typed text, no photographic reproductions. All original black-and-white images have been kept.
The layout and structure, including some punctuation, has been changed somewhat to make the book better readable, especially in the e-book version, but the content remains totally unchanged.

Six stories: The little man in brown or the boy who lied – The magic gun – The underground river – The origin of the Yarra Yarra (Ever-flowing) – Forget-me-not – The Palace of Truth.



A propos de l’auteur

Agnes Row was born in Australia, Campbell’s Creek, Victoria, in the year 1866, as the second youngest of five surviving children. When her mother died at an early age, the eldest sister took responsibility over her younger siblings, but also she died very soon.
In 1896 she became a deaconess, Sister Agnes, parting from her surname forever. She belonged to an Anglican order of women, the CHN – Community of the Holy Name, looking after slum-dwellers, providing medical care, refuges for women, education and Christianity.
Put in charge of St George’s Mission Hall, she found her purpose in looking after the needy boys. When she read her stories to them, she kept a hall full of them interested and excited; they were eating out of her hand, everyone felt that nothing could go wrong with her around and whatever she said was fair and right, becoming a guide for their future life.
Other assignments followed, like the Superintendent of the Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes in Melbourne or Superintendent of St Mark’s Mothers’ Union.
Sister Agnes died in the year 1930.